Coupling of lung tissue tethering force to fluid dynamics in the pulmonary circulation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 862-875

  Burrowes, K S ^a   Tawhai, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Subject specific models; Tissue mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL NETWORKS; ARTERIAL VESSELS; AXIAL VESSELS; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONSERVATION OF MASS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; FINITE DEFORMATION ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; FLOW GRADIENTS; FLOW MODEL; LUNG TISSUE; LUNG VOLUME; ON FLOW; PARENCHYMAL TISSUE; PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC MODELS; TETHERING FORCE; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TISSUE MECHANICS; VOLUME CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

TISSUE;

EID: 77954601280     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1386     Document Type: Article

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