Matteo Trirre'
A framework for the fluid structure simulation of ascending aortic aneurysms with inverse identification of wall material properties.
Rel. Diego Gallo, Sabrina Nocerino, Salvatore Pasta. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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The aorta, the body’s largest vessel, is prone to aneurysm due to high pressure, age, physiological and genetic factors. An aneurysm, a potentially fatal dilation and thinning of the wall, has rupture as the main risk. Predicting rupture is difficult since imaging and guidelines are often insufficient. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) explores hemodynamics and disease progression but assumes rigid walls, limiting accuracy. Fluid–structure interaction (FSI), which accounts for vascular distensibility, allows more accurate analyses, with a more realistic simulation of the hemodynamics and estimation of structural stresses in the wall. This work applies a semi-automatic FSI pipeline to a patient-specific ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (ATAA), including wall property identification for a more accurate biomechanical assessment.
The aortic models at end-diastole and peak-systole were reconstructed from computed tomography angiography (CTA) images, while the patient’s heart rate, brachial pressure and peak transaortic (TA) jet velocity from echo-doppler were used as pipeline inputs
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