Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System

• Main Authors: Kheradvar, Arash (Author), Pedrizzetti, Gianni (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Interventional radiology.; Cardiology.; Continuum physics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Interventional Radiology.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.

Vortex formation has received much attention over the past few years. Vortices occur in nature wherever propulsive flow exists; from erupting volcanoes to the ones generated by squid and jellyfish to propel them. There has been particular interest in the wide variety of vortices that develop in the...