Francesco Spinoso
A quantitative analysis of the impact of inflow velocity waveform in computational hemodynamic models of coronary arteries.
Rel. Umberto Morbiducci, Diego Gallo, Giuseppe De Nisco, Maurizio Lodi Rizzini. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2021
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Hemodynamics plays a crucial role in understanding vessel wall disorders, so a quantitative study of hemodynamics is of paramount importance. A strong medical research focus is put on the study of the hemodynamics of coronary arteries, since approximately one-third of the deaths related to cardiovascular issues are due to atherosclerosis affecting the coronary artery walls. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a widely used method of performing a quantitative analysis of the hemodynamics inside blood vessels. However, CFD presents several uncertainties related to the imposition of non-fully specific boundary conditions, which has an impact on simulation results and, subsequently, on the wall shear stress (WSS)-based descriptors used for quantitatively assessing some features of the blood flow.
The aim of this thesis is to assess and quantify the impact of boundary conditions, in terms of shape of velocity waveforms applied at the inlet section of patient-specific coronary artery models, on WSS-based descriptors of major clinical and biological interest
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