COMPUTATIONAL BIOMECHANICS OF BLOOD FLOW AT MACRO- AND MICRO-SCALES

Due to the rapid growth of computational power, computational biomechanics is now thought of as the most rapidly growing engineering theme in the biomedical engineering field. We have been investigating cardiovascular diseases over the microscopic and macroscopic levels by using conjugated computational mechanics to analyze fluid, solid and bio-chemical interactions. In this article, we present a novel hemodynamic index for predicting the initiation of cerebral aneurysms, and a numerical model of blood flow in malaria infection.