| Article ID: | iaor20122856 |
| Volume: | 82 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 1047 |
| End Page Number: | 1055 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Journal: | Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
| Authors: | Cascaval Radu C |
| Keywords: | simulation: applications |
We derive a nonlinear model for the pressure and flow velocity wave propagation in an arterial segment. We then study the transmission and reflection of pulses at bifurcation. We observe a linear dependence of the transmitted speeds to the incoming speeds, and similarly for the reflected speeds. We propose a method for validating the numerical results obtained from this model against real data.