Minimisation of the wall shear stress gradients in bypass grafts anastomoses using meshless CFD and genetic algorithms optimisation

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-47

  Zahab, Zaher El ^a   Divo, Eduardo ^b   Kassab, Alain ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

End to side distal anastomoses; Genetic algorithms; Intimal hyperplasia; Meshless CFD; Shape optimisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 77950892245     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255840903013555     Document Type: Article

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