Sensitivity to outflow boundary conditions and level of geometry description for a cerebral aneurysm

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 697-713

  Ramalho, S ^a   Moura, A ^a   Gambaruto, A M ^a   Sequeira, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Computational fluid dynamics; Geometrical multiscale modelling; Outflow boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; COMPUTED FLOWS; FLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTION; GEOMETRIC DETAILS; HAEMODYNAMICS; IDEALISATION; MAIN VESSEL; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SIDE BRANCHES; VASCULATURE; ZERO VELOCITY; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOMETRY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84862319074     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2461     Document Type: Article

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