Fluid–structure interaction is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all biological scales.
Immersed methods provide mathematical and computational frameworks for modeling fluid …

SUMMARY 1 Artificial heart valves have been in use for over five decades to replace
diseased heart valves. Since the first heart valve replacement performed with a caged‐ball …

The immersed boundary method is a methodology for dealing with boundary conditions at
fluid–fluid and fluid–solid interfaces. The immersed boundary method has been attracting …

The sharp-interface CURVIB approach of Ge and Sotiropoulos [L. Ge, F. Sotiropoulos, A
numerical method for solving the 3D unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in …

A three-dimensional fluid–structure interaction (FSI) framework for rigid bodies has been
extended to deformable soft tissue by coupling a sharp-interface immersed boundary …

As the pulsatile cardiac blood flow drives the heart valve leaflets to open and close, the flow
in the vicinity of the valve resembles a pulsed jet through a nonaxisymmetric orifice with a …

Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHV) are widely used to replace diseased heart valves.
Implantation of BMHV, however, has been linked with major complications, which are …

Recent computational methods enabling patient-specific simulations of native and prosthetic
heart valves are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on two critical components of such …

In the recent years, fluid structure interaction (FSI) models of the aortic valve and root have
become increasingly common for two main reasons. The medical reason is that millions of …

This work focuses on the direct numerical simulation of the pulsatile flow through a bileaflet
mechanical heart valve under physiological conditions and in a realistic aortic root …