Blood flow in the rabbit aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 65, 2011, Pages 1708-1719

  Vincent, P E ^a,b   Plata, A M ^a   Hunt, A A E ^a   Weinberg, P D ^a   Sherwin, S J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Blood flow; Continuous Galerkin; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BLOOD; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; HEMODYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AORTIC ARCH; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; AXIAL VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS GALERKIN; FLOW FEATURES; GEOMETRICAL ACCURACY; HIGH-ORDER; LIPID DEPOSITION; LOCAL FLOWS; LOCAL VARIATIONS; SECOND GENERATION; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULATURE; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA ARCH; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SHEAR STRESS; THORACIC AORTA;

EID: 82655169322     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0116     Document Type: Article

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