3-D numerical simulation of blood flow through models of the human aorta

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 767-775

  Morris, L ^a   Delassus, P ^b   Callanan, A ^a   Walsh, M ^a   Wallis, F ^c   Grace, P ^c   McGloughlin, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aorta; Blood Flow; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Imaging; Reconstruction Methods

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSATILE FLOW;

AORTA; BLOOD FLOW; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; VELOCITY CONTOURS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

BLOOD;

AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESCENDING AORTA; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PULSE WAVE; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 25444482709     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1992521     Document Type: Article

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