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 ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD ... the complex endothelium to lead to the dysfunctional phenotype. Computational models provide an essential tool to understand the endothelium as a system. The ...

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.

Cellular biomechanics of neural and vascular injury, mechanotransduction in the cardiovascular system, mechanical control of growth ... signal transduction Computational and experimental fluid ...

3D computer models of the whole heart still require a huge amount of computational power. One heartbeat, for example, can take about three hours in a supercomputer with almost 1,000 processors.