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Geometrical And Topological Optimization And Their Relation To The Bifurcation Laws In Optimized Arterial Tree Models

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

31

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

940 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/OP970351

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

W. Schreiner, F. Neumann, R. Karch, M. Neumann, A. End & S.M. Roedler

Abstract

In generating models of vascular trees, the method of Constrained Constructive Optimization (CCO) draws on the assumption that optimization criterions can be utilized to derive the geometrical and structural features of the tree models, without using informations from topographic anatomy. The boundary conditions imposed describe pressures and flows at the inlet and outlets of the binary branching model tree as well as the ratios of radii at a bifurcation ("power-law" for bifurcations).

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