Abstract
We started Computational Biomechanics Research project at RIKEN in 1999. This project includes circulatory simulation, soft and hard tissue simulation and human motion analysis. In the circulatory simulation, we have developed several simulation codes, such as, a fluid - structure coupling simulation code, blood flow simulation codes for the left ventricle and the aorta, kidney artery, carotid artery and stenosis in the brain. In addition, we have also developed both image processing code to handle medical images to get the shape of the artery and mesh generation code for simulation. Using these codes, we can estimate the effects of surgical operation such as removing stenosis or the stent, etc. Parallel conputation is usually used to increase computation speed of one simulation but it should be used to combine one compornent with others to simulate whole human body in biomechanical simulation.
