Patient-specific computational haemodynamics: Generation of structured and conformal hexahedral meshes from triangulated surfaces of vascular bifurcations

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 797-802

  de Santis, G ^a   de Beule, M ^a   Segers, P ^a   Verdonck, P ^a   Verhegghe, B ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Computational fluid dynamics; Hexahedral mesh; Patient specific; PyFormex; STL

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL GEOMETRY; BEZIER SPLINES; BLOOD FLOW; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CURRENT IMAGING; CUTTING PLANES; HAEMODYNAMICS; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; HEXAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION; OPEN SOURCES; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MESH; PYFORMEX; STL; SURFACE MESH; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; TRIANGULATED SURFACES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS;

MESH GENERATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CAROTID ARTERY; CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 84855181889     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.495066     Document Type: Article

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