Application of asymptotic expansion homogenization for vascularized poroelastic brain tissue
Journal
2018 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2018 - Proceedings
Pages
413-418
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Abstract
Brain oedema formation after ischaemia-reperfusion has been previously modelled by assuming that the blood vessels distribution in the brain as homogeneous. However, the blood vessels in the brain have variety of lengths and diameters, and this assumption should be reconsidered. One of the ways to improve this assumption is by taking into account the microstructure of the blood vessels and their distribution by formulating the model using asymptotic expansion homogenization (AEH) technique. In this paper, AEH of the vascularized poroelastic model is carried out to obtain a set of new homogenized macroscale governing equations and their associated microscale cell problems. An example of solving the microscale cell problems using a simple cubic geometry with embedded 6-branch cylinders representing brain tissue and capillaries is shown to obtain four important tensors L, Q, K, and G. These tensors describe the mechanical and fluid transport characteristics of the brain tissue, which will be used later to solve the homogenized macroscale equations on a larger brain geometry using appropriate boundary conditions. This method will be extended in the future to include statistically accurate capillary distribution of brain tissue. ? 2018 IEEE.
Subjects
Asymptotic analysis
Biomedical engineering
Brain
Microcirculation
Tensors
Tissue
Asymptotic expansion homogenization
Brain tissue
Cell problems
Poroelastic materials
Poroelastic theory
Blood vessels
Type
conference paper