Conference Agenda

10:00am - 10:15am

Effect of elevated and reduced cardiac output levels on the turbulent flow field behind mechanical and biological aortic valve prostheses

Lorenzo Ferrari, Dominik Obrist

ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

10:15am - 10:30am

Effect of Hemodynamics on the Arteriolar Tissue Dilation

Antonis Marousis, Yannis Dimakopoulos, John Tsamopoulos

Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Rheology, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras

10:30am - 10:45am

Effective timing between arterial pulsations and transmantle pressure fluctuations may explain bulk glymphatic flow through periarterial spaces

Wilfried Coenen¹, Guillermo L. Nozaleda², Victor Haughton³, Antonio L. Sánchez²

¹Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; ²University of Calfornia San Diego; ³University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:45am - 11:00am

Effects of buoyancy on the dispersion of drugs released intrathecally in the spinal canal

Antonio L Sánchez¹, Javier Alaminos-Quesada¹, Candido Gutiérrez-Montes², Wilfried Coenen³

¹Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA; ²Department of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, University of Jaen, Spain; ³Grupo de Mecánica de Fluidos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

11:00am - 11:15am

Fast actuation of the Mimosa pudica plant: an osmotic muscle?

Yoël Forterre, Mathieu Rivière, Joël Marthelot

Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS

11:15am - 11:30am

Flow induced in a cavity by an oscillatory channel flow separated by a flexible wall

Antonio José Bárcenas-Luque¹, Carlos Martínez-Bazán¹, Manuel Lorite-Díez¹, Cándido Gutérrez-Montes², Eduardo Durán-Venegas³, Wilfried Coenen⁴, Antonio Sánchez⁵

¹Universidad de Granada; ²Universidad de Jaén; ³Universidad de Málaga; ⁴Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; ⁵University of California, San Diego

11:30am - 11:45am

Fluid mechanics of fascial sheath blocks for regional anesthesia

Dominik Obrist², Yannick Rösch², Friedrich Lersch¹

¹University Clinic for Anaestesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland; ²ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

11:45am - 12:00pm

High-resolution flow field investigations in membrane lungs, considering the complex blood rheology

Michael Kranz¹, Daniel Pointner¹, Karla Lehle², Matthias Lubnow³, Lars Krenkel¹

¹Department of Biofluid Mechanics, Technical University of Applied Sciences (OTH) Regensburg, Germany; ²Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany; ³Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany