Shunichi Kobayashi

TL;DR: The authors' results indicate that critical plaque stress/strain conditions are affected considerably by stenosis severity, eccentricity, lipid pool size, shape and position, plaque cap thickness, axial stretch, pressure, and fluid-structure interactions, and may be used for possible plaque rupture predictions.

TL;DR: The results indicate that severe stenosis causes critical flow conditions, high tensile stress, and considerable compressive stress in the stenosis plaque which may be related to artery compression and plaque cap rupture.

TL;DR: Inclusion of cyclic bending, anisotropic vessel material properties, accurate plaque structure, and axial stretch in computational FSI models should lead to a considerable improvement of accuracy of computational stress/strain predictions for coronary plaque vulnerability assessment.

TL;DR: A three-dimensional nonlinear model with FSI and a numerical method using GFD are introduced to study unsteady viscous flow in stenotic tubes with cyclic wall collapse simulating blood flowIn stenotic carotid arteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical method using generalized finite differences (GFD) and a three-dimensional computational model with fluid-wall interactions are introduced to investigate viscous flow in stenotic elastic tubes with large wall deformation and collapse.