An investigation of pulsatile flow in a model cavo-pulmonary vascular system

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1061-1083

  Chitra, K ^a   Vengadesan, S ^a   Sundararajan, T ^a   Nithiarasu, P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow; CFD; Finite element method; Flow visualization; Fontan procedure; Inferior vena cava; Superior vena cava; Total cavo pulmonary connection

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CFD; FONTAN PROCEDURE; INFERIOR VENA CAVA; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION;

BLOOD; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; PULSATILE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77649151754     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1205     Document Type: Article

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