Visualization and Simulation of Complex Flows in Biomedical Engineering

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
A Survey of Quantitative Descriptors of Arterial Flows....Pages 1-24
Fluid–Structure Interaction Modeling of Patient-Specific Cerebral Aneurysms....Pages 25-45
A Full-Eulerian Approach for the Fluid–Structure Interaction Problem....Pages 47-74
Physiological Significance of Cell-Free Layer and Experimental Determination of its Width in Microcirculatory Vessels....Pages 75-87
Computational Simulation of NO/O 2 Transport in Arterioles: Role of Cell-Free Layer....Pages 89-100
Flow-Induced Deformation of a Capsule in Unbounded Stokes Flow....Pages 101-117
Cell-Free Layer (CFL) Measurements in Complex Geometries: Contractions and Bifurcations....Pages 119-132
Image Processing in the Tracking and Analysis of Red Blood Cell Motion in Micro-Circulation Experiments....Pages 133-149
Flow of Red Blood Cells Suspensions Through Hyperbolic Microcontractions....Pages 151-163
Responses of Living Cells to Hydrodynamic Stimuli Due to Fluid Flow....Pages 165-180
The Effect of a Static Magnetic Field on the Flow of Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanoparticles Through Glass Capillaries....Pages 181-196
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Ciliary Flow....Pages 197-218
Flow on the Surface of the Tracheal Lumen by Ciliary Motion of Asymmetric Axonemal Structures....Pages 219-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-240