Author(s)

B. Dennis, R. Eberhart, G. Dulikravich & S. Radons

Abstract

Brain cooling strategies: numerical simulations on a realistic human head geometry B. Dennis', R. Eberhart2, G. Dulikravich3 & S. Radons4 'institute of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA 3~epartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA 4~ & D Center, Medtronics Physio Controls Corp., Redmond, WA, USA . Abstract A 3-D finite element method (FEM) based model of the bioheat transfer equation has been developed to simulate the unsteady temperature distribution in a human head undergoing external cooling. A finite element analysis (FEA) code was developed to solve the bioheat transfer equation in arbitrary shaped 3-D multi-material objects discretized with tetrahedral elements. The correctness of the code was verified by comparing numerical results against an exact analytical solution for a simple geometry. The code was then used to simula

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