Numerical treatment of boundary conditions to replace lateral branches in hemodynamics

作者：Porpora A; Zunino P; Vergara C^*; Piccinelli M

来源：International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2012, 28(12): 1165-1183.

DOI：10.1002/cnm.2488

• fluid-structure interaction problems
• weak enforcement of boundary conditions
• vascular reconstruction
• lateral branch exclusion

In this paper, we discuss a technique for weakly enforcing flow rate conditions in computational hemodynamics. In particular, we study the effectiveness of cutting lateral branches from the computational domain and replacing them with non-perturbing boundary conditions to simplify the geometrical reconstruction and the numerical simulation. All these features are investigated both in the case of rigid and compliant walls. Several numerical results are presented to discuss the reliability of the proposed method.

• 出版日期2012-12