Numerical implementation of viscoelastic blood flow in a simplified arterial geometry

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 491-496

  Rojas, Hernán A González ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Numerical simulation of flow; Viscoelastic flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; VISCOELASTICITY;

BLOOD FLOW; NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOW; OSCILLATORY SHEAR INDEX (OSI); VISCOELASTIC FLOW; WALL SHEAR STRESS (WSS);

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ARTERIES; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ELASTICITY; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33846074766     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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