Tetrahedral vs. polyhedral mesh size evaluation on flow velocity and wall shear stress for cerebral hemodynamic simulation

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-22

  Spiegel, Martin ^a,b   Redel, Thomas ^b   Zhang, Jonathan ^c   Struffert, Tobias ^a   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Grossman, Robert ^c   Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Karmonik, Christof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocity; Mesh independence analysis; Mesh size evaluation; Polyhedral; Tetrahedral; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; MESH INDEPENDENCE ANALYSIS; MESH SIZE; POLYHEDRAL; TETRAHEDRAL; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; FLOW VELOCITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79251506961     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.518565     Document Type: Article

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