Abstract:
:Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an increasingly used method for investigation of hemodynamic parameters and their alterations under pathological conditions, which are important indicators for diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. In hemodynamic simulation models, the employment of appropriate boundary conditions (BCs) determines the computational accuracy of the CFD simulation in comparison with pressure and velocity measurements. In this study, we have first assessed the influence of inlet boundary conditions on hemodynamic CFD simulations. We selected two typical patients suspected of carotid artery disease, with mild stenosis and severe stenosis. Both patients underwent digital subtraction angiography (DSA), magnetic resonance angiography, and the invasive pressure guide wire measured pressure profile. We have performed computational experiments to (1) study the hemodynamic simulation outcomes of distributions of wall shear stress, pressure, pressure gradient and (2) determine the differences in hemodynamic performances caused by inlet BCs derived from DSA and Womersley analytical solution. Our study has found that the difference is related to the severity of the stenosis; the greater the stenosis, the more the difference ensues. Further, in our study, the two typical subjects with invasively measured pressure profile and thirty subjects with ultrasound Doppler velocimeter (UDV) measurement served as the criteria to evaluate the hemodynamic outcomes of wall shear stress, pressure, pressure gradient and velocity due to different outlet BCs based on the Windkessel model, structured-tree model, and fully developed flow model. According to the pressure profiles, the fully developed model appeared to have more fluctuations compared with the other two models. The Windkessel model had more singularities before convergence. The three outlet BCs models also showed good correlation with the UDV measurement, while the Windkessel model appeared to be slightly better ([Formula: see text]). The structured-tree model was seen to have the best performance in terms of available computational cost and accuracy. The results of our numerical simulation and the good correlation with the computed pressure and velocity with their measurements have highlighted the effectiveness of CFD simulation in patient-specific human carotid artery with suspected stenosis.
journal_name
Biomech Model Mechanobioljournal_title
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiologyauthors
Xu P,Liu X,Zhang H,Ghista D,Zhang D,Shi C,Huang Wdoi
10.1007/s10237-018-1045-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-12-01 00:00:00pages
1581-1597issue
6eissn
1617-7959issn
1617-7940pii
10.1007/s10237-018-1045-4journal_volume
17pub_type
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