Investigation of pulsatile flowfield in healthy thoracic aorta models

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 391-402

  Wen, Chih Yung ^a   Yang, An Shik ^b   Tseng, Li Yu ^b   Chai, Jyh Wen ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow visualization system; Hemodynamics; Pulsatile flowfield; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

AORTIC ARCH; AORTIC FLOW; AXIAL VELOCITY; BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM; CODE VALIDATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; FLOW VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN BODIES; IN-VITRO; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAGITTAL PLANE; THORACIC AORTA; WALL PRESSURE; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL THICKENING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID MECHANICS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INLET FLOW; JOB ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; RESONANCE; STRESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALL FLOW;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR STRENGTH; THORACIC AORTA; YOUNG MODULUS;

AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 77249132505     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9835-6     Document Type: Article

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