Biomechanical Transport Processes

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Objectives and Perspectives of the Colloquium: “Bio-Mechanical Transport Processes”....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Transport of Materials through the Walls of Different Blood Vessels....Pages 7-13
Shunting of Heat in Canine Myocardium is Considerable....Pages 15-21
Stiffening of the Cardiac Wall by Coronary Blood Volume Increase: A Finite Element Simulation....Pages 23-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Steady Flows and Instabilities in Collapsible Tubes....Pages 33-40
Flow in Pipes with Varying Cross Sections....Pages 41-50
Quasi-Steady Laminar Viscous Flow in Circular Curved Pipe....Pages 51-58
Pulsatile Flow through Partially Occluded Ducts and Bifurcations....Pages 59-66
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Carotid Artery Blood Flow....Pages 67-75
Internal Flows with Moving Boundaries and Applications in Ventricular Ejection....Pages 77-85
Upscaling as a Tool in Biofluidmechanics — Demonstrated at the Artificial Heart Valve Flow....Pages 87-95
The Study of Integrated Ventricular and Arterial Function Using the Method of Characteristics....Pages 97-103
Vorticity Formation and Transport from Mechanical Heart Valve Prostheses Experimental and Numerical Simulations....Pages 105-114
Flows in Rigid and Arterial Graft Bifurcation Models....Pages 115-124
A Predictive Scheme for Flow in Arterial Bifurcations: Comparison with Laboratory Measurements....Pages 125-133
Modelling the Pulmonary Circulation in Health and Disease....Pages 135-142
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Lung Bifurcation Flows....Pages 143-154
Regulation of Flow in Vascular Networks by EDRF....Pages 155-164
Flow Studies in a Model of the Abdominal Aorta....Pages 165-172
Three Dimensional Shear Stress Distribution around Small Atherosclerotic Plaques with Steady and Unsteady Flow....Pages 173-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Synergetics of O 2 -Transport in the Mammalian Microcirculation: Cooperativity of Molecular, Cellular, Kinematic and Hemodynamic Factors in “Rectified Blood Flow”....Pages 185-196
Wall Shear Rate in Arterioles: Least Estimates from in Vivo Recorded Velocity Profiles....Pages 197-204
Blood Flow in Microcirculatory Networks and Porous-Media-Like Tissues....Pages 205-215
Erythrocyte in the Capillary — The Mathematical Model....Pages 217-222
Closed Fluid Quadrilamina Model of the Erythrocyte Membrane....Pages 223-233
ESR and Erythrocyte Studies....Pages 235-242
Modelling Hemodynamics in Small Tubes (Hollow Fibers) Considering Non-Newtonian Blood Properties and Radial Hematocrit Distribution....Pages 243-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
3-D Visualization of Arterial Structures and Flow Phenomena....Pages 253-270
Methodological Strategies to Investigate Blood-Wall Interactions....Pages 271-281
Influence of Fluid Mechanical Stresses on Vascular Cell Adhesion....Pages 283-292
Non-Invasive Assessment of Velocity Patterns in and Wall Properties of the Carotid Artery Bifurcation in Man by Means of a Multi-Gate Pulsed Doppler System....Pages 293-302
Aneurysms as a Biomechanical Instability Problem....Pages 303-311
Endothelial Cells under Mechanical and Humoral Stress....Pages 313-322
Endothelialized Prosthetic Supports and Cellular Biomechanics: A Test Bench for Evaluation of Cell Tearing....Pages 323-328
Experiments and Numerical Analysis Relating to Atherogenesis....Pages 329-338
Investigations Concerning Localization of Induced Thrombus Formation at Arteriolar Branchings....Pages 339-346
The Influence of Vascular Smooth Muscle on the Development of Post-Stenotic Dilatation....Pages 347-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Blood Rheology in Extracorporeal Circulation....Pages 359-373
A High Resolution Personal Computer Controlled Laser Doppler Velocimeter....Pages 375-379
Intra Operative Flowmetry for Vascular Surgery....Pages 381-386
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
In Vitro Analysis of a Model of Intracardiac Jet: A Laser Doppler Anemometric Study....Pages 387-401
Back Matter....Pages 403-414