Document Type : Full Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Biomechanics Department, Mechanical Engineering School, Sahaod University of Technology

2 Associate Professor, Biomechanics Department, Mechanical Engineering School, Sahand University of Technology

3 Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering School, Amirkabir University of Technology

10.22041/ijbme.2008.13452

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the effect of mechanical loading on remodeling process with aging in muscular arteries. Based on the gathered experimental data, the brachial artery was selected for simulation. In this simulation, pulsatile pressure and flow waves were considered as boundary conditions to study the effect of circumferential stress and wall shear stress on the remodeling process. FSI based transient numerical simulation was used to solve the fluid and solid equations. The results of three remodeling schemes showed that inward eutrophic scheme is an optimum algorithm for brachia! Artery remodeling with aging. Such remodeling scheme causes the most optimized outcome to keep circumferential stress with minimal alteration. 

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