Advanced computational models for disturbed and turbulent flow in stenosed human carotid artery bifurcation

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 21 IFMBE, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 390-394

  Tan, Felicia P P ^a   Soloperto, G ^a   Wood, N B ^a   Thom, S ^b   Hughes, A ^b   Xu, X Y ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid artery; Computational fluid dynamics; turbulence modeling; wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSCILLATING FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY; IMAGE-BASED MODELING; LAMINAR TURBULENT TRANSITIONS; SHEAR-STRESS TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 70450256765     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69139-6_99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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