Figure 2
From: Modeling a 3-D multiscale blood-flow and heat-transfer framework for realistic vascular systems
An illustrative description of the Heat transfer model. (a) A small voxel domain representing artery, vein, and tissue, with SoI for an artery and vein. (b) Zoomed in voxel (i, j) with its neighbor. The convective heat exchange between (i − 1, j) and (i, j) is calculated using Eq. (15c) and between (i + 1, j) and (i, j) using Eq. (15b). Conduction between voxels (i, j + 1) and (i, j − 1) with (i, j) is calculated using Eq. (15a). The advection between tissue voxels and advection due to the source term are modeled using the second term and third term on RHS of Eq. (15), respectively. (c) Multiscale mesh example for heat transfer between a blood vessel and tissue. The arterial element represented using a thick border consists of multiple Arterial Voxels.
