On the stability of the coupling of 3D and 1D fluid-structure interaction models for blood flow simulations

Formaggia, Luca; Moura, Alexandra; Nobile, Fabio

ESAIM: Modélisation mathématique et analyse numérique, Tome 41 (2007) no. 4, pp. 743-769.

We consider the coupling between three-dimensional ($3$D) and one-dimensional ($1$D) fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models describing blood flow inside compliant vessels. The $1$D model is a hyperbolic system of partial differential equations. The $3$D model consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible newtonian fluids coupled with a model for the vessel wall dynamics. A non standard formulation for the Navier-Stokes equations is adopted to have suitable boundary conditions for the coupling of the models. With this we derive an energy estimate for the fully $3$D-$1$D FSI coupling. We consider several possible models for the mechanics of the vessel wall in the $3$D problem and show how the $3$D-$1$D coupling depends on them. Several comparative numerical tests illustrating the coupling are presented.

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