A qualitative simulation of blood flow through an elastic cerebral saccular aneurysm using an immersed boundary method

dc.contributor.author	Sutton, Brielle
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-19T00:52:00Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-19T00:52:00Z
dc.date.updated	2018-06-19T19:17:18Z
dc.description.abstract	Fluid dynamics has been used to simulate blood flow through major arteries of the human body (e.g. aorta and carotid) for advancement of medical technology. This dissertation is directed towards blood flow through a saccular aneurysm attached to a cerebral artery and the effects that the velocity and force of the blood flow have on the aneurysm wall. The two-dimensional nonlinear incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved on a staggered Eulerian grid to determine the flow of blood through the artery and aneurysm. An immersed boundary method is utilized to enforce solid boundaries. Subsequently, these nonlinear equations are coupled with the dynamic equation for the motion of an elastic body using an implicit second-order finite-difference scheme on a Lagrangian grid. An efficient and effective numerical program is created that simulates blood flow through a moving artery and its adjoining aneurysm.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12090/282
dc.language.rfc3066	en
dc.title	A qualitative simulation of blood flow through an elastic cerebral saccular aneurysm using an immersed boundary method

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