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  • Open Access
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24 Pages

CFD Analysis of Coronary Artery Blood Flow Using an Ad Hoc OpenFOAM CFD Solver

  • Francesco Duronio,
  • Andrea Di Mascio,
  • Luca Di Angelo,
  • Elena Iovannitti and
  • Beatrice Sette

27 October 2026

Coronary blood flow is governed by the interaction between pulsatile aortic haemodynamics, the downstream vascular response, and the time-dependent compression exerted by the myocardium. This study presents a custom OpenFOAM solver for simulation of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Design and Modeling for Medical Devices and Simulators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,710 Views
19 Pages

5 December 2023

Coronary artery diseases (CADs) are a leading cause of death worldwide. Accurate numerical simulations of coronary blood flow, especially in high-risk atherosclerotic patients, have been a major challenge for clinical applications. This study pioneer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulation and Computational Methods in Engineering and Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,800 Views
22 Pages

A Computational Framework for FFR Estimation in Right Coronary Arteries: From CFD Simulation to Clinical Validation

  • Francisco P. Oliveira,
  • Maria Fernandes,
  • Nuno Dias Ferreira,
  • Diogo Santos-Ferreira and ,
  • Saima Mushtaq,
  • Gianluca Pontone,
  • Ricardo Ladeiras-Lopes,
  • Nuno Bettencourt,
  • Luísa C. Sousa and
  • Sónia I. S. Pinto
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 January 2026

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Accurate and non-invasive quantification of coronary hemodynamics, namely in the right coronary artery (RCA), is essential for clinical decision-making but...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,412 Views
31 Pages

Hybrid CFD PINN FSI Simulation in Coronary Artery Trees

  • Nursultan Alzhanov,
  • Eddie Y. K. Ng and
  • Yong Zhao

25 November 2024

This paper presents a novel hybrid approach that integrates computational fluid dynamics (CFD), physics-informed neural networks (PINN), and fluid–structure interaction (FSI) methods to simulate fluid flow in stenotic coronary artery trees and...