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Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction between injection medium and balloon catheter using ICFD

  • Arteriosclerosis is a major health issue worldwide. While it is commonly treated by the implantation of an balloon-expandable stent, micro injuries may occur during stent deployment, and induce in-stent restenosis, whose consequence can be fatal. Studying this undesirable phenomenon is usually limited as experimental data is hard to obtain on ethical ground. Numerical simulation are performed to better understand this problem. To construct a more realistic simulation of a balloon-expandable stent, a partitioned strongly-coupled FSI simulation of the balloon deployment was set up using the ICFD solver of LS-DYNA, - a quite innovative approach. The complex balloon configuration as well as the interaction of the injection medium and the balloon structure was considered. The balloon structure consisting of shell elements was obtained from preliminary balloon folding and pleating simulations. The balloon consists of a flexible thin walled polyamide. The injection fluid is implemented using volume elements. Balloon deployment was initiated by a pressure boundary condition inducing a volume flow into the balloon. The initial feasibility analysis showed promising result including a continuous balloon deployment and a reasonable development of the fluid pressure and velocity field. However, applying this FSI approach to a more complex balloon structure led to a non convergent solution. The non-convergence could be mainly reduced to mechanical factors including the low wall thickness of the balloon (< 0.05 mm) and the flexibility of the polyamide. Further, the ICFD solver shows less accuracy concerning the FSI conditions when dealing with thin flexible structures as well as enclosed volumes. A shell thickness of 0.06 mm is believed to result in a convergent solution.

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Author:Lisa WiesentORCiD, Markus A. Geith, Marcus WagnerORCiDGND
URL / DOI:https://www.dynalook.com/conferences/11th-european-ls-dyna-conference/icfd-solver-and-fsi/simulation-of-fluid-structure-interaction-between-injection-medium-and-balloon-catheter-using-icfd
ISBN:978-3981621549
Parent Title (English):11th European LS-DYNA Conference 2017, 9 - 11 May, Salzburg, Austria
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2017
Release Date:2020/05/12
GND Keyword:Koronare Herzkrankheit; Stent; Ballondilatation; Numerische Strömungssimulation
Institutes:Fakultät Maschinenbau
Regensburg Center of Biomedical Engineering - RCBE
Fakultät Maschinenbau / Labor Medizinprodukte
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik