Simulating Multi-Scale Pulmonary Vascular Function by Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics With an Anatomic Network Model. 2022

Behdad Shaarbaf Ebrahimi, and Haribalan Kumar, and Merryn H Tawhai, and Kelly S Burrowes, and Eric A Hoffman, and Alys R Clark
Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

The function of the pulmonary circulation is truly multi-scale, with blood transported through vessels from centimeter to micron scale. There are scale-dependent mechanisms that govern the flow in the pulmonary vascular system. However, very few computational models of pulmonary hemodynamics capture the physics of pulmonary perfusion across the spatial scales of functional importance in the lung. Here we present a multi-scale model that incorporates the 3-dimensional (3D) complexities of pulmonary blood flow in the major vessels, coupled to an anatomically-based vascular network model incorporating the multiple contributing factors to capillary perfusion, including gravity. Using the model we demonstrate how we can predict the impact of vascular remodeling and occlusion on both macro-scale functional drivers (flow distribution between lungs, and wall shear stress) and micro-scale contributors to gas exchange. The model predicts interactions between 3D and 1D models that lead to a redistribution of blood between postures, both on a macro- and a micro-scale. This allows us to estimate the effect of posture on left and right pulmonary artery wall shear stress, with predictions varying by 0.75-1.35 dyne/cm2 between postures.

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