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Author:

Aycock, Kenneth Iven

Title:

Towards Patient-Specific Modeling of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Performance

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

IVC filter
nitinol
pulmonary embolism
immersed boundary method
six degrees of freedom
inferior vena cava
computational fluid dynamics
finite element analysis
non-Newtonian
hemorheology
hemodynamics
patient-specific
computational modeling
embolus transport
coupled CFD/6-DOF
fictitious domain method

File:

Download 2016_Aycock_Kenneth_Penn_State_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B. Manning, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert L. Campbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Michael Krane, Committee Member
Donna H. Korzick, Outside Member
Brent A. Craven, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keefe B. Manning, Committee Chair/Co-Chair