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Numerical simulation of the wall shear stress distribution in a carotid artery bifurcation

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The effect of stenosis for a carotid artery bifurcation with elastic and rigid walls is investigated numerically. In the present study, the blood flow is considered as a laminar pulsatile flow. The effect of fluid-solid interaction is carried out using ANSYS-FLUENT software. The results show that the maximum wall shear stress in the stenosed artery is three times higher than that of a healthy artery. The shear stress gradient in elastic arteries Is lower than in rigid arteries. For rigid artery, the return flow and separation length in the diastolic phase is lower than the systolic phase.

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Marzieh Rezazadeh received her M.S. in mechanical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 2002 and her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2013. Since 2014, she has been Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran. Her current studies include fluid-solid interaction, numerical simulation of fluid mechanics, nanofluid flow simulation, biofluid flow simulation and Lattice Boltzmann method.

Ramin Ostadi received his M.S. in mechanical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran. His research interests are computational fluid dynamics.

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Rezazadeh, M., Ostadi, R. Numerical simulation of the wall shear stress distribution in a carotid artery bifurcation. J Mech Sci Technol 36, 5035–5046 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-022-0917-9

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