Simulation of the human intracranial arterial tree

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1896, 2009, Pages 2371-2386

  Grinberg, Leopold ^a   Anor, Tomer ^b   Cheever, Elizabeth ^a   Madsen, Joseph R ^b   Karniadakis, George Em ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Circle of Willis; Computational fluid dynamics; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

ARTERIAL NETWORKS; ARTERIAL TREE; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTER PROCESSORS; CONTROL FLOW RATE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FLOW EQUATIONS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE SIZES; PARALLEL COMPUTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-LEVEL DOMAIN;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 67650911642     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0307     Document Type: Article

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