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Patient-Specific Computer Modeling of Blood Flow in Cerebral Arteries With Aneurysm and Stent

This thesis focuses on special arterial fluid mechanics techniques
developed for patient-specific computer modeling of blood flow in cerebral arteries with aneurysm and stent. These techniques are used in conjunction with the core computational technique, which is the space–time version of the
variational multiscale (VMS) method and is called “DST/SST-VMST.” The special techniques include using NURBS for the spatial representation of the surface over which the stent mesh is built, mesh generation techniques for both the finite-
and zero-thickness representations of the stent, techniques for generating refined layers of mesh near the arterial and stent surfaces, and models for representing double stent. We compute the unsteady flow patterns in the aneurysm and investigate how those patterns are influenced by the presence of single and
double stents. We also compare the flow patterns obtained with the finite- and zero-thickness representations of the stent.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/64699
Date06 September 2012
CreatorsSchjodt, Kathleen
ContributorsTezduyar, Tayfun E.
Source SetsRice University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis, text
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