Simulation of flow in an exact replica of a diseased human carotid artery

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2599-2609

  Younis, B A ^a   Spring, S ^b   Olaf Neumann, S ^b   Weigand, B ^b  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Chaotic flow; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEADY FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAROTID ARTERY; CHAOTIC FLOW; FLOW SIMULATION; STENOSIS; UNSTABLE JETS;

JETS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW STRUCTURE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEADY FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 34249992629     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2006.10.026     Document Type: Article

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