Abstract
The numerical simulation system of hemodynamics has been developed for the purpose of advanced medicine. The simulation system we have developed realizes a highly efficient simulation process by adopting the voxel model of blood vessels obtained by medical images and a newly developed scheme based on VOF-FVM corresponding to voxel models. The new simulation system does not require mesh generation because of the use of rectangular coordinates. The voxel model of a blood vessel can be constructed very quickly using the voxel model builder we developed. Furthermore, we developed an input system for boundary conditions, which makes it possible for the user to input boundary conditions easily and quickly through a user-friendly interface. To certify the numerical results rapidly, software for animating the blood flow has been developed. We examined the preciseness of the hemodynamics simulation system in the case of a linear tube and a U-shaped tube. The results were in agreement with experimental results and theoretical solutions. As an example of hemodynamics simulation, we examined the blood flow of an internal carotid artery. The simulation system attained high performance compared with the result obtained using the authors' previous method. It especially improves the efficiency of modeling and mesh generation.
