Hemodynamic effect of unequal anterior cerebral artery flow rates on the anterior communicating artery bifurcation: A computational fluid dynamics study

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

Volumn 2008, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rau, Thomas ^a   He, Xing ^b   Venugopal, Prem ^b   Viñuela, Fernando ^b   Duckwiler, Gary ^b   Valentino, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; SHEAR STRESS;

ANEURYSM FORMATION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; BIFURCATION REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; IMPINGEMENT REGIONS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 62749104410     PISSN: 16875591     EISSN: 16875605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/691982     Document Type: Article

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