The smooth muscle cell directly drives the contraction of the vascular wall and hence
regulates the size of the blood vessel lumen. We review here the current understanding of …

Soft structures are capable of undergoing reversible large strains and deformations when
facing different types of loadings. Due to the limitations of linear elastic models, researchers …

Mechanics are increasingly recognized to play an important role in modulating brain form
and function. Computational simulations are a powerful tool to predict the mechanical …

Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods and Applications takes the reader from
the fundamentals of computational fluid and solid mechanics to the state-of-the-art in …

Mathematical and numerical modelling of the cardiovascular system is a research topic that
has attracted remarkable interest from the mathematical community because of its intrinsic …

New experimental results on collagen fibre dispersion in human arterial layers have shown
that the dispersion in the tangential plane is more significant than that out of plane. A …

The established method of polarized microscopy in combination with a universal stage is
used to determine the layer-specific distributed collagen fibre orientations in 11 human non …

Biomechanical factors play fundamental roles in the natural history of abdominal aortic
aneurysms (AAAs) and their responses to treatment. Advances during the past two decades …

Collagen fibres within fibrous soft biological tissues such as artery walls, cartilage,
myocardiums, corneas and heart valves are responsible for their anisotropic mechanical …

Mathematical and numerical modelling of the human cardiovascular system has attracted
remarkable research interest due to its intrinsic mathematical difficulty and the increasing …