A Navier-Stokes processor for biomedical applications

Author

Zygouris, Vasilios ; Karagianni, Konstantina ; Stouraitis, Thanos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

2005

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

372

Abstract

VLSI implementation issues in the design of a parallel processor for the solution of a set of Navier-Stokes (NS) equations which model the flow of blood through a stenosis are discussed in this paper. Specifically, the Navier-Stokes equations and the Poisson equation are used for the calculation of the velocities and pressure of the blood in the stenosis. Selection of the stenosis model, definition of the computation grid, selection of the initial conditions and boundary conditions, discretization of the original equations, software simulations with the SIMPLER method are discussed. The impact of these choices on VLSI architecture complexity is investigated.

Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; Poisson equation; VLSI; medical computing; parallel architectures; Navier-Stokes processor; Poisson equation; VLSI architecture complexity; biomedical applications; blood flow; blood stenosis; computation grid; parallel processor design; software simulations; Application software; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Blood; Concurrent computing; Design engineering; Navier-Stokes equations; Poisson equations; Process design; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation, 2005. IEEE Workshop on

ISSN

1520-6130

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9333-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIPS.2005.1579895

Filename

1579895