We present a qualitative analysis of the flow pattern in cerebral aneurysms and the effect on the velocity reduction of stent implantation. We use the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, which implements a mesoscopic dynamics of the interactions between fictitious particles. LB provides an efficient...

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) simulations are conducted to obtain the detailed hydrodynamics in a variety of blood vessel setups, including a prototype stented channel and four human coronary artery geometries based on the images obtained from real patients. For a model of stented flow involving an...

A novel lattice Boltzmann model for two-phase fluids is presented. We begin with the two-body BBGKY equation, and perform a coordinate transformation to split it into a Boltzmann equation for the one-body distribution, coupled to a kinetic equation for the correlation function. The coupling is...

A two-dimensional finite-difference lattice Boltzmann model for liquid–vapor systems is introduced and analyzed. Two different numerical schemes are used and compared in recovering equilibrium density and velocity profiles for a planar interface. We show that flux limiter techniques can be...

Lattice Boltzmann simulations of a particulate suspension in plane Poiseuille flow and two-dimensional bifurcation flow are conducted to investigate the blood cell behavior at microvascular bifurcations. The simulation results of Poiseuille flow at a low hematocrit reveal that particles are...