Influence of high-porosity mesh stent on hemodynamics of intracranial aneurysm: A computational study

This paper studies the influence of a High-Porosity Mesh (HPM) stent on the hemodynamic characteristics in the intracranial aneurysm based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). An idealized basilar tip aneurysm model and a HPM stent model are built. The pulsating blood flow in a cardiac cycle is computationally simulated for non-stented and stented models, to provide a wealth of information of the spatio-temporally varying blood flow field. The influence of the stent placement on the hemodynamic characteristics is analyzed in terms of distributions of velocity, pressure, Wall Shear Stress (WSS) and Energy Loss (EL), which are believed to play an important role in the development and rupture of the aneurysm. The numerical results clearly show that the velocity, pressure, WSS and EL of the blood flow in the aneurysm are reduced by 30%–40% when the HPM stent is implanted. These computational results may provide valuable hemodynamic information for clinical neurosurgeon.