Pulsatile flow inside moderately elastic arteries, its modelling and effects of elasticity

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-231

  Pedrizzetti, Gianni ^a   Domenichini, Federico ^b   Tortoriello, Angela ^c   Zovatto, Luigino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artery flow; Boundary layer separation; Elastic walls; Vorticity; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; VORTICITY;

ARTERY FLOW; BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; CIRCULAR CONDUIT; COUPLED PROBLEMS; ELASTIC WALLS; PERTURBATIVE METHOD; VASCULAR DISEASE; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85047687117     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255840212874     Document Type: Article

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