BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CFD has been proved valuable for simulating blood flow in intracranial aneurysms, which may add to better rupture risk assessment. However, CFD has drawbacks such as the sensitivity to assumptions needed for the model, which may hinder its clinical implementation. 3D PC-MR imaging is a technique that enables measurements of blood flow. The purpose of this study was to com...

Introduction: Knowledge of blood flow patterns in the human body is a critical component in cardiovascular disease diagnosis. In-vivo blood flow is typically assessed either by 3D phase-contrast MRI [1], or by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations [2]. MRI measurements are direct, but offer limited spatio-temporal resolution. Conventional CFD calculations offer "infinite" spatial reso...

Impressive progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been made during the last three decades. In the early stages, one of the main targets of CFD for aeronautical fields was to compute flow around airfoils and wings accurately. Body-fitted-coordinate grids, commonly called as structured grids, were used in those days. From the late eighty’s, the target was moved to full aircraft comput...

AIM The aim of the current study is to assess the mortality prediction accuracy of circulating cell-free DNA (CFD) level at admission measured by a new simplified method. MATERIALS AND METHODS CFD levels were measured by a direct fluorescence assay in severe sepsis patients on intensive care unit (ICU) admission. In-hospital and/or twenty eight day all-cause mortality was the primary outcome....

in order to comply with stringent pollutant emissions regulations, a detailed analysis of the engine combustion and emission is required. in this field, computational tools like cfd and engine cycle simulation play a fundamental role. therefore, the goal of the present work is to simulate a high speed di diesel engine and study the combustion and major diesel engine emissions with more details,...

In the field of screw compressors, although the basic operation of flow systems is well known and the analytical methods for their performance prediction are well established, only few attempts of investigating the flow by means of CFD can be identified in the available literature. In this paper, two important aspects of numerical investigation of the flow behavior are presented. Firstly, metho...

The present paper describes some technical and business considerations for the coupled (rather than sequential) simulations of fluid flow, structural, and thermal phenomena in industrial equipment. A Modular (object-oriented) approach of performing coupled simulations is described. The embodying software (MDICE: Multi-Disciplinary Computing Environment) also allows the use of various (interchan...