From the computer engineering and computational ... the heart is a membrane pump, the vessels are flexible conduits, and the blood is an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid. Ideally, the model ...

Today, computational models can study biological systems ... to build a highly accurate model of the patient’s own circulatory system which can be used by surgeons to plan surgeries.

These efforts draw upon a large multidisciplinary knowledgebase, applying the thinking, phenomena, techniques, and technology of cardiovascular biophysics, molecular biology, mechanobiology, cellular ...