An adaptive mesh refinement solver for large-scale simulation of biological flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-100

  Botti, Lorenzo ^a,b   Piccinelli, Marina ^a   Ene Iordache, Bogdan ^a   Remuzzi, Andrea ^a,b   Antiga, Luca ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Computational hemodynamics; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Open source; Velocity correction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL HEMODYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPEN SOURCE; OPEN SOURCES;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MANAGEMENT; MESH GENERATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 77952009732     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1257     Document Type: Article

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