Modeling cardiovascular hemodynamics

Session Outline

· Revision of basic principles of biofluid mechanics;

 

· The hemodynamic hypothesis: hemodynamics as risk factor of vascular disease;

 

· From clinical images to computational hemodynamics: integration of clinical imaging inside an in silico framework;

 

· Towards subject-specific computational hemodynamics: assumptions, limitations, uncertainties;

 

· Validation/verification of in silico approaches and clinical image settings;

 

· Examples of model-based predictions of blood flow in arterial districts;