Influence of Bicuspid Valve Geometry on Ascending Aortic Fluid Dynamics: A Parametric Study

Artificial Organs

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-378

  Vergara, Christian ^a   Viscardi, Francesca ^c   Antiga, Luca ^b   Luciani, Giovanni Battista ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Ascending aorta; Bicuspid aortic valve; Computational fluid dynamics; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; SHEAR STRESS;

ANEURYSM FORMATION; AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVES; BICUSPID VALVES; FLUID-DYNAMICS; HAEMODYNAMICS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL-SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ASCENDING AORTIC FLUID DYNAMICS; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BICUSPID VALVE GEOMETRY; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SHEAR STRESS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 84859595883     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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