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• TITLE: Numerical Simulation of the Blood Flow through a Brain Vascular Aneurysm with an Artificial Stent Using the SPH Method

  AUTHORS: Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti, Jaime Klapp, Karla Pedroza, Edgar Nathal, Carlos E. Alvarado-Rodríguez

  KEYWORDS: Brain Vascular Flow, Aneurysms, Blood Flow, Particle Methods, Numerical Modeling

  JOURNAL NAME: Engineering, Vol.10 No.12, December 28, 2018

  ABSTRACT: We present numerical simulations of blood flow through a brain vascular aneurysm with an artificial stent using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). The aim of this work is to analyze how the flow into an aneurysm changes using different stent configurations. The initial conditions for the simulations were constructed from angiographic images of a real patient with an aneurysm. The wall shear stresses, pressure and highest velocity within the artery, and other particular quantities are calculated which are of medical specific interest. The numerical simulations of the cerebral circulation help doctors to determine if the patient’s own vascular anatomy has the conditions to allow arterial stenting by endovascular method before the surgery or even evaluate the effect of different stent structure and materials. The results show that the flow downstream the aneurysm is highly modified by the stent configuration and that the best choice for reducing the flow in the aneurysm is to use a completely extended Endeavor stent.