Numerical analysis of blood flow in an aortocoronary bypass model
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Aortocoronary bypass (ACB) surgery is a treatment to bypass a blocked artery using a graft. Approximately 500,000 bypass surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year. Of these, about 15% to 20% have an early-phase failure, typically in the proximal region. A natural question which arises is whether fluid dynamic geometry plays a role in the patency. Since only a few studies have considered proximal region geometry, this motivates the present study.
Blood flow in a coronary artery bypass often involves very complex fluid dynamic behavior. Numerical simulation is employed to investigate the flow field environment of the proximal region of a bypass. A series of different branching models with laminar inflow are considered to systematically investigate the geometrical effect under different flow conditions. Model types (with branch diameter to host diameter ratio