Blood Flow Modeling in Coronary Arteries: A Review

Atherosclerosis is one of the main causes cardiovascular events, namely, myocardium infarction and cerebral stroke, responsible for a great number deaths every year worldwide. This pathology caused by progressive accumulation low-density lipoproteins, cholesterol, other substances on arterial wall, narrowing its lumen. To date, many hemodynamic studies have been conducted experimentally and/or numerically; however, this disease not yet fully understood. For reason, research still ongoing, mainly, resorting to computational methods. These increasingly used in biomedical atherosclerosis because their high-performance hardware software. Taking into account attempts that made techniques simulate realistic conditions blood flow both diseased healthy arteries, present review aims give an overview most recent numerical focused coronary addressing viscosity models, applied physiological conditions. In general, regardless boundary conditions, contributed better understanding development disease, diagnosis, treatment.