Lung radiotherapy is greatly benefitted when the tumor motion caused by breathing can be modeled. The aim of this paper is to present the importance of using anisotropic and subject-specific tissue elasticity for simulating the airflow inside the lungs. A computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) based approach is presented to simulate airflow inside a subject-specific deformable lung for modeling lun...

[1] A detailed understanding of the coupling between fluid and solid mechanics is important for understanding many processes in Earth sciences. Numerical models are a popular means for exploring these processes, but most models do not adequately handle all aspects of this coupling. This paper presents the application of a micromechanically based fluid-solid coupling scheme, lattice-Boltzmann di...

The fibril reinforced poroelastic models have been found successful in describing some mechanical behaviors of articular cartilage in unconfined compression that were not understood previously, including the strong and nonlinear transient response, the strain-magnitude and strain-rate dependent cartilage stiffness and the depth-varying stresses and strains. It has been demonstrated that a bette...

This paper deals with a computational strategy suitable for the simulation of multiphysics problems, based on the Large Time INcrement (LATIN) method. The simulation of such problems must encounter the possible different time and space scales which usually arise with the different physics. Herein, we focus on using different time and space discretizations for each physics by introducing an inte...

In this paper, the analysis and homogenization of a poroelastic model for hydro-mechanical response fiber-reinforced hydrogels are considered. Here, medium in question is considered to be highly heterogeneous two-component media composed connected fiber-scaffold with periodically distributed inclusions hydrogel. While fibers assumed elastic, hydromechanical hydrogel modeled via Biot's poroelast...