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A multiscale model of cardiovascular system including an immersed whole-heart in the cases of normal and ventricular septal defect (VSD)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-015-0088-2

  • 저자WanhoLee (Eunok Jung)
  • 학술지Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 77
  • 등재유형
  • 게재일자(2015)


A mathematical and computational model combining the heart and circulatory system has been developed to understand the hemodynamics of circulation under normal conditions and ventricular septal defect (VSD). The immersed boundary method has been introduced to describe the interaction between the moving two-dimensional heart and intracardiac blood flow. The whole-heart model is governed by the Navier–Stokes system; this system is combined with a multi-compartment model of circulation using pressure–flow relations and the linearity of the discretized Navier–Stokes system. We investigate the velocity field, flowmeters, and pressure–volume loop in both normal and VSD cases. Simulation results show qualitatively good agreements with others found in the literature. This model, combining the heart and circulation, is useful for understanding the complex, hemodynamic mechanisms involved in normal circulation and cardiac diseases.


A mathematical and computational model combining the heart and circulatory system has been developed to understand the hemodynamics of circulation under normal conditions and ventricular septal defect (VSD). The immersed boundary method has been introduced to describe the interaction between the moving two-dimensional heart and intracardiac blood flow. The whole-heart model is governed by the Navier–Stokes system; this system is combined with a multi-compartment model of circulation using pressure–flow relations and the linearity of the discretized Navier–Stokes system. We investigate the velocity field, flowmeters, and pressure–volume loop in both normal and VSD cases. Simulation results show qualitatively good agreements with others found in the literature. This model, combining the heart and circulation, is useful for understanding the complex, hemodynamic mechanisms involved in normal circulation and cardiac diseases.

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