Fluid-structure interaction in lower airways of CT-based lung geometries

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 653-675

  Wall, Wolfgang A ^a   Rabczuk, Timon ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT scan; Dirichlet Neumann partitioning; FSI; Lung

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDICS; FLUIDS; GEOMETRY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MESH GENERATION; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; AIR FLOW PATTERNS; AIRWAY WALLS; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN (ALE); BRONCHIAL TREE; CT SCANNING; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); FINITE ELEMENT (FE) CODE; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION (FSI); IN VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LAGRANGIAN; MECHANICAL VENTILATION; NEWTONIAN; NON-LINEAR; SHELL ELEMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WALL BEHAVIOR; WALL STRESSES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 45849133455     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1763     Document Type: Article

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