Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Gianni Pedrizzetti, Karl Perktold (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 446
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book presents the state-of-the-art in the interdisciplinary field of fluid mechanics applied to cardiovascular modelling. It is neighter a monograph nor a collection of research papers, rather an extended review in the field. It is arranged in 4 scientific chapters each presenting thoroughly the approach of a leading research team; two additional chapters prepared by biomedical scientists present the topic by the applied perspective. This volume covers a wide range of the current topics in the field. It is an advanced text, however it derives from school lectures and presents several introductory portions to the advanced topics. A unique feature is a substantial (approx. one fourth of the book) medical introductory part, written by clinical researchers for scientific readers, that would require a large effort to be collected otherwise.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages ii-vii
Arterial and Venous Fluid Dynamics....Pages 1-72
Computational Models of Arterial Flow and Mass Transport....Pages 73-136
Finite Difference and Finite Volume Techniques for the Solution of Navier-Stokes Equations in Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics....Pages 137-186
Fluid Flow inside Deformable Vessels and in the Left Ventricle....Pages 187-234
From Left Ventricular Dynamics to the Pathophysiology of the Failing Heart....Pages 235-247
Element of Physiology and Mechanics of Human Arteries....Pages 249-271

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics; Numerical and Computational Physics; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Computational Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering