Hybrid finite element/finite difference (FE/FD) model to analyze thermal transients in biological vascularized tissues

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1307-1318

  Santis, Valerio De ^a   Feliziani, Mauro ^a   Maradei, Francescaromana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Finite element analysis; Heat transfer; Modelling

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DOSIMETRY; HEATING EQUIPMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BLOOD TEMPERATURES; COUPLED STRUCTURES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DO-MAINS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FUTURE WORKS; HEAT DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HEAT EQUATIONS; HYBRID METHODS; HYBRID PROCEDURES; ITERATIVE TIMES; MODELLING; NUMERICAL DOSIMETRIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE INCREASES; THIN VESSELS; TISSUE TEMPERATURES; VASCULARISATION; VASCULARIZED TISSUES; VESSEL STRUCTURES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 57249111834     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321640810905783     Document Type: Article

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