Title: Concurrent numerical simulation of flow and blood clotting using the lattice Boltzmann technique

Authors: Jorg Bernsdorf, Sarah E. Harrison, Stephen M. Smith, Patricia V. Lawford, D. Rodney Hose

Addresses: C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Rathausallee 10, D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany. ' Academic Unit of Medical Physics, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK. ' Academic Unit of Medical Physics, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK. ' Academic Unit of Medical Physics, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK. ' Academic Unit of Medical Physics, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK

Abstract: In this paper, we describe a novel approach for a concurrent numerical simulation of the unsteady flow within an idealised stenosed artery and a simplified blood clotting process based on a residence time model. The applied numerical scheme is the lattice Boltzmann technique, which proved to be highly efficient particularly for transient flows and complex or varying geometries.

Keywords: blood clotting; stenosis; lattice Boltzmann; concurrent numerical simulation; unsteady flow; stenosed artery; bioinformatics research; bioinformatics applications; transient flows; complex geometries; varying geometries; high performance computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2006.011036

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2006 Vol.2 No.4, pp.371 - 380

Published online: 05 Oct 2006 *

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