Computational analysis of viscoelastic deformation of human blood vessels with a plaque of statistically predicted size

Abstract

Viscoelastic deformation cycles of human blood vessels under normal functioning conditions were studied. Atherosclerotic plaque with stochastic development was also taken into account in the modeling. A computer simulation algorithm has been developed to perform parametric analysis for models with different geometrical dimensions. The study was carried out in a two-dimensional formulation based on the finite element method.