Biomedical flows and structures
This project will use the methods and software from the Computational Middleware and the Robust Flow Solvers projects to attack challenging biomedical flow problems - a new and vital class of challenging physical problems where mathematical modeling is in its initial stages. Computational biofluid mechanics is an emerging field that is already beginning to have an impact on the design of medical devices, the development and planning of surgical procedures, and the enhancement of the scientific understanding of human development, disease and aging.
Ongoing and possible research projects:
- Drug inhalation
- Aerosol flow (bacteria)
- Blood flow in the circle of Willis
- Fluid-structure interactions
- 1D arterial network
- Multiscale 1D-3D blood flow
- Tissue deformation
- Flow around the mitral valve in the heart
- Sound waves in the lungs
- Flow, deformation and electrophysiology in the heart
- Fundamental fluid mechanics research
- Application of multiscale models to modality to the fetal circulatory system
- Cardiac fluid* structure interaction
- Data acquisition and imaging techniques
