Our priority in this phase of project is development of reliable direct models of the blood flow in distensible arties by:

• 1D model pressure wave propagation in a deformable tube similar to that implemented in STARFiSh code
  • 1D model blood will be treated as a Newtonian fluid. The wall is a thin, incompressible, homogeneous, isotropic elastic membrane.
• 3D FSI model implemented in ANSYS-FLUENT using necessary User Defined Functions
  • 3D FSI model solves the full Navier Stokes equations and treats blood as a non-Newtonian fluid using the Careou model. The wall is treated as an anisotropic linear elastic material with different longitudinal and circumferential Young moduli.