Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Publication Details

Published in the conference proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2008).

Abstract

Coronary stent implantation can improve blood flow in an artery that has been narrowed by the build up of arterial plaque. However, the implantation of the stent will change the geometry of the vessel wall. The haemodynamic effects of the stents presence and alteration of the vessel wall are unclear. The redistribution of flow induced vessel wall shear stress (WSS) and wall shear stress gradient (WSSG) may directly contribute to restenosis (re-blockage). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used extensively to identify these parameters in stented vessels. However, simplifications to the model of the stented artery are common. In this paper, computational domains of stented arteries with increasing levels of physiological realism are created. CFD is used to predict the WSS and WSSG for each set of computational domains. Finally, the results show that certain simplifications are not valid for CFD analyses of implanted coronary stents.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650559

Funder

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technological University Dublin (DIT)and the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)

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