Title :
Agent-based model of flow in the urethra
Author :
Greenshields, Ian R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
This short paper describes ongoing work which is an extension of earlier work exploring flow models in elastic deformable tubes. In this paper we describe an application of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) married to the earlier model implemented in an agent-based platform.
Keywords :
biological fluid dynamics; biology computing; gynaecology; hydrodynamics; physiological models; pipe flow; agent-based flow model; elastic deformable tubes; smoothed particle hydrodynamics; urethra; Application software; Computer science; Deformable models; Fluid flow; Interpolation; Kernel; Lagrangian functions; Navier-Stokes equations; Smoothing methods; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2004. CBMS 2004. Proceedings. 17th IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2104-5
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2004.1311766
