Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab
Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab develops tools for simulating the cardiovascular system, with a particular focus on blood flow in the vasculature, aneurysms and the heart.
Our Experts build patient-specific models from medical image data (such as MRI and CT Scan) to create a customized model for each patient, which represents their unique vascular anatomy.
They then use that model to run simulations of blood flow, which allows us to do virtual surgery, virtual treatment planning, and risk assessment.
Much of our focus is on developing numerical tools and computational algorithms to ensure we can capture things like cardiovascular physiology, moving heart and vessel walls or valve leaflets realistically.
We also develop advanced algorithms for optimization of surgeries and medical devices and uncertainty quantification. Ultimately, we aim to bring the same kind of predictive simulations that we’ve come to routinely expect in, for example, the aerospace industry to medicine.
Our goal is to make better predictions about patients’ outcomes following surgery or other interventions and ultimately improve their overall outcomes and quality of life.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
The Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab develops fundamental computational methods for the study of cardiovascular disease progression, surgical methods, treatment planning and medical devices. We focus on patient-specific modelling in pediatric and congenital heart disease, as well as adult cardiovascular disease. Our lab bridges engineering and medicine through the different experts in bioengineering and computational and mathematical engineering.
Medical Imaging
The aim of the track 'Imaging' is to develop clinical measurement techniques to assess the geometrical, biomechanical and morphological properties of primarily cardiovascular tissue (heart, arteries/veins). The ultimate goal is to improve diagnosis, clinical decision making, and monitoring of disease progression over time, and/or guide therapy/intervention using a non-invasive imaging modality that is easily accessible, cost-effective and radiation-free.
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Leader of Cardiovascular Biomechanics Laboratory
Dr. Barzegar is a Research Associate at the Universidade da Beira Interior. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering on Modelling of Rarefied Gas Flow for Calibration of Gas Sensor using DSMC. He got his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST). He had worked for more than 15 years on Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling.
Email: m.barzegargerdroodbary@ubi.pt , m.barzegargerdroodbary@fluidcodes.ir
Mechanical Engineer
Fluid and thermal design engineer with experience in simulation of fluid flow in mesoscopic and microscopic scales by using lattice Bultmann and molecular dynamics methods.
Chemical and Biomedical engineer
Chemical and Biomedical Engineer interested in using CFD simulations to study hemodynamics within cerebral aneurysms in order to optimize endovascular treatments.
Thermal Fluid engineer
CFD engineer with practical experience in building physics, vascular biomechanics simulation, the design of cooling systems and proficiency with Ansys Fluent and Minitab.
Description of geometric indices in cerebral aneurysms
Influence of the coiling porosity on the risk reduction of the cerebral aneurysm rupture: computational study
