Computational Tool to Simulate and Visualize the Blood Flow in the Femoral Artery

JUAN PABLO TELLO; JUAN CARLOS VELEZ; RICARDO PRATO; CAMILO NARANJO ARIZA; JAIRO CARDONA PEÑA ; ANDRES VILLA OJEDA

New Jersey

Conferencia; 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Imaging, Signal Processing (ICBSP2017); 2017

Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society

This paper presents the development of a computational tool to simulate and visualize the blood flow in two dimensions (2D) over the real geometry of the femoral artery in which, the Navier-Stokes equations are solved using the Finite Elements Method. The velocity field obtained has a laminar behavior; therefore, the highest velocity is in the center of the artery and decreases as the blood flow approaches artery walls. In spite of all artery and blood flow properties not being considered, the values of pressure and velocity obtained are within the normal ranges