Blood flow-vessel interaction in a subclavian aneurysm

Abstract

This paper presents a mathematical mode and numerical simulation results of the blood flow-structural interaction, which occurs in a saccular aneurysm emerging out of the left subclavian artery, using computational domains made of by medical images reconstruction. A correlation between the total force per area acting upon the artery walls by the pulsatile blood flow and the rupture probability are also investigated.

Keywords

• saccular aneurysm
• blood flow
• numerical simulation
• finite element
• CT image reconstruction