Extension of the composite smeared finite element (CSFE) to include lymphatic system in modeling mass transport in capillary systems and biological tissue

• Published in: Journal of the Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics Vol. 11; no. 2; p. 108
• Main Authors: Kojic, Milos, Milosevic, Miljan, Simic, Vladimir, Koay, Eugene J, Kojic, Nikola, Ziemys, Arturas, Ferrari, Mauro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbia 01.01.2017
• Subjects: capillary system; biological tissue; smeared finite element; lymphatic system; convective-diffusive mass transport

We have recently introduced a composite smeared finite element (CSFE) to model gradient-driven mass transport in biological tissue. The transport from capillary system is smeared in a way to transform 1D transport to a continuum, while the tissue is considered as a continuum. Coupling between the sm...