A computational model of human heart

• Grant number: 16/19126-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Eduardo Keutenedjian Mady
• Grantee: Laryssa Abdala
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims at conducting a computational model of the heart, taking into account the mass transfer between the different cavities. Models previously proposed by the group will be used to support this model. The continuity, momentum and energy equations will be solved in order to predict the behavior of the heart and the interaction of hearts chambers. This model will be used as a basis for future comparison, from the exergy analysis point of view, of one health heart with one with one pathology, for instance, Chagas disease. In this disease there is a reduction in blood pumping capacity with respective hypertrophy of cardiac muscle. Therefore this model must have the parameters easy to modify in order to make theses changes possible. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ABDALA, Laryssa. Modelo computacional de uma câmara do coração a partir das equações de Navier-Stokes. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica Campinas, SP.