Three-dimensional numerical simulation of blood flow in mouse aortic arch around atherosclerotic plaques

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 17-18, 2014, Pages 4175-4185

  Assemat, Pauline ^a   Armitage, James A ^a,b,c   Siu, Karen K ^a,d   Contreras, Karla G ^a   Dart, Anthony M ^c   Chin Dusting, Jaye P ^c   Hourigan, Kerry ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic plaques; Mechanical effects; Oscillating flow; Plaque progression; Pressure gradient; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OSCILLATING FLOW; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; MECHANICAL EFFECTS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLAQUE PROGRESSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84906060284     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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