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Beyond the Virtual Intracranial Stenting Challenge 2007: non-Newtonian and flow pulsatility effects
Marco Cavazzuti1, Mark Atherton, Michael Collins
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Civile, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, via Vignolese 905, Modena, Italy.
Abstract:
The Virtual Intracranial Stenting Challenge 2007 (VISC'07) is becoming a standard test case in computational minimally invasive cerebrovascular intervention. Following views expressed in the literature and consistent with the recommendations of a report, the effects of non-Newtonian viscosity and pulsatile flow are reported. Three models of stented cerebral aneurysms, originating from VISC'07 are meshed and the flow characteristics simulated using commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. We conclude that non-Newtonian and pulsatile effects are important to include in order to discriminate more effectively between stent designs.
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