Thrombosis Modelling in a Stenosed Artery

This chapter presents a discussion on blood clotting in an idealized stenosed artery and its effect on the local flow dynamics. We make use of a simple residence-time-based model to mimic the clot growth. The blood flow is modelled using Ansys Fluent, while the clotting process is supervised using a UDF subroutine. Blood flow is considered to be Newtonian and non-pulsatile. We believe that the model presented in this chapter can be extended to study clotting patterns in geometries much more complex than the one presented here.