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A Parallel Domain Decomposition Algorithm for Simulating Blood Flow with Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Resistive Boundary Condition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Yuqi Wu  and
Xiao-Chuan Cai
Yuqi Wu*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Xiao-Chuan Cai*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
*
Corresponding author.Email:yuqi.wu@colorado.edu
Email:cai@cs.colorado.edu
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Abstract

We introduce and study a parallel domain decomposition algorithm for the simulation of blood flow in compliant arteries using a fully-coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations consisting of a linear elasticity equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a resistive outflow boundary condition. The system is discretized with a finite element method on unstructured moving meshes and solved by a Newton-Krylov algorithm preconditioned with an overlapping restricted additive Schwarz method. The resistive outflow boundary condition plays an interesting role in the accuracy of the blood flow simulation and we provide a numerical comparison of its accuracy with the standard pressure type boundary condition. We also discuss the parallel performance of the implicit domain decomposition method for solving the fully coupled nonlinear system on a supercomputer with a few hundred processors.

Keywords

74F1065M5535R3765Y0568W10Fluid-structure interactionblood flowmesh movementresistive boundary conditionadditive Schwarzdomain decompositionparallel computing

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 2012 , pp. 1279 - 1299
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2012

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