TY  - EJOU
AU  - Scotti, Christine M.  
AU  - Cornejo, Sergio L.  
AU  - Finol, Ender A.  

TI  - Biomechanics of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Flow-Induced Wall Stress Distribution
T2  - The International Conference on Computational \& Experimental Engineering and Sciences

PY  - 2007
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SN  - 1933-2815

AB  - Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is believed to represent the culmination of a complex vascular mechanism partially driven by the forces exerted on the arterial wall. In the present investigation, we present fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and finite element analysis (FEA) computations of a patient-specific AAA model. This work advances previous FSI AAA modeling by including localized intraluminal thrombus and the comparison of FSI- and FEA-predicted wall stress distributions. The FSI transient fluid and wall dynamics resulted in a maximum wall stress 21% higher than that obtained with FEA, demonstrating the importance of modeling blood flow for the assessment of AAA wall mechanics.
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DO  - 10.3970/icces.2007.001.041