On Aortic Blood Flow Simulations : Scale-Resolved Image-Based CFD

This thesis focuses on modeling and simulation of the blood flow in the aorta, the largest artery in the human body. It is an accepted fact that abnormal biological and mechanical interactions between the blood flow and the vessel wall are involved in the genesis and progression of cardiovascular di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lantz, Jonas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Mekanisk värmeteori och strömningslära 2013
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-85682
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7519-720-3