Unsteady blood flow and mass transfer of a human left coronary artery bifurcation: FSI vs. CFD

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 745-751

  Malve M ^a,b   Garcia A ^a   Ohayon, J ^c,d   Martinez M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

CFD; Coronary artery; FEM; Fluid solid interaction; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CORONARY ARTERIES; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID SOLID INTERACTION; HYPERELASTIC MATERIALS; LEFT CORONARY ARTERIES; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; UNSTEADY BLOOD FLOW; UNSTEADY STATE; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84862645182     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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