Modeling tissue perfusion in terms of 1d-3d embedded mixed-dimension coupled problems with distributed sources

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2020.109370zbMATH Open1436.76064arXiv1905.03346OpenAlexW3005181186MaRDI QIDQ777543FDOQ777543


Authors: Timo Koch, Martin Schneider, Rainer Helmig, Patrick Jenny Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 July 2020

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new method for modeling tissue perfusion on the capillary scale. The microvasculature is represented by a network of one-dimensional vessel segments embedded in the extra-vascular space. Vascular and extra-vascular space exchange fluid over the vessel walls. This exchange is modeled by distributed sources using smooth kernel functions for the extra-vascular domain. It is shown that the proposed method may significantly improve the approximation of the exchange flux, in comparison with existing methods for mixed-dimension embedded problems. Furthermore, the method exhibits better convergence rates of the relevant quantities due to the increased regularity of the extra-vascular pressure solution. Numerical experiments with a vascular network from the rat cortex show that the error in the approximation of the exchange flux for coarse grid resolution may be decreased by a factor of 3. This may open the way for computing on larger network domains, where a fine grid resolution cannot be achieved in practical simulations due to constraints in computational resources, for example in the context of uncertainty quantification.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03346




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