The investigation of flow - Structural interaction in an arterial branching by numerical simulation

There is an outstanding growing interest in developing numerical methods and tools to investigate the hemodynamic of the arterial flow, and to understand its interaction with the anatomic structural system. As arteries morphology is complex and patient-related, medical data based reconstruction of the geometry may be utilized to generate realistic computational domains. Numerical methods and image-based geometry reconstruction have reached the stage where they may be utilized to investigate and predict the hemodynamic flows in arteries. In this paper we report numerical simulation results on arterial blood flow - vessel and muscular mass interaction. The flow patterns and the structural displacements thus obtained may be utilized for vascular surgery training, planning and intervention, to investigate atherosclerosis genesis, in drug targeting, etc.