Multiphase particle-in-cell simulation in severe internal carotid artery stenosis

Sia, Sheau Fung and Zhao, Xuemei and Yu, Yong and Zhang, Yu (2019) Multiphase particle-in-cell simulation in severe internal carotid artery stenosis. Powder Technology, 358. pp. 62-67. ISSN 0032-5910, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2018.07.091.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2018.07.091

Abstract

Internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis, usually caused by atherosclerosis plaque, restricts the blood supply to the brain and causes cerebral ischemia. The plaque can be stable and asymptomatic, or it can cause embolization. An emboli can break from the plaque and travel to the blood vessels in the brain, causing a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or thromboembolic stroke. To reduce the risk of a stroke, estimation of the blood flow and stress distribution at the ICA stenosis is important. Common diagnostic methods, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are only able to provide a stenotic configuration. In addition, conventional image-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) assumes the blood is a single-phase fluid, ignoring the circulating blood cell particles. This may result in an unreliable estimation of the blood flow and stress distribution at the ICA stenosis. Therefore, a multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) model was introduced to calculate the plasma flow and blood cell motion separately. The MP-PIC simulation showed a reverse flow, flow stagnation, and flow swigging at the stenosis that was not demonstrated by the single-phase model simulation. Thus, the blood cell motion caused significant temporal and spatial flow oscillation variations at the stenosis and must be considered in a hemodynamic simulation. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type: Article
Funders: The independent research fund of The Tsinghua University (No. 20141081265)
Uncontrolled Keywords: ICA-stenosis; MP-PIC; WSS; OSI
Subjects: R Medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 16 Jan 2020 02:23
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2020 02:23
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/23450

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