Comparison of patient-specific inlet boundary conditions in the numerical modelling of blood flow in abdominal aortic aneurysm disease

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-178

  Hardman, David ^a   Semple, Scott I ^a   Richards, Jennifer M J ^a   Hoskins, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D velocity profile; Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Computational fluid dynamics; Inlet boundary; Womersley

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; AXIAL COMPONENTS; BLOOD FLOW; CENTRE LINE; COMPLEX PATTERN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; HAEMODYNAMICS; HELICAL FLOWS; INLET BOUNDARY; MEAN VALUES; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; RIGID WALL; THREE COMPONENT; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VELOCITY PROFILES; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WOMERSLEY;

BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY; WAKES;

INLET FLOW;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SHEAR STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873442996     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2535     Document Type: Article

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