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Abstrak
Thrombosis, or blood clot formation, is an important feature of many vascular diseases. This process is influenced by a wide range of variables, including biochemical reactions and blood flow. Many of the breakthroughs in our current understanding of blood clots have been led by the biochemistry and physiology communities, and have enabled a sophisticated appreciation of the process. The addition of haemodynamics, or blood flow, is a relatively recent development and can contribute to our understanding of blood clot formation in disease. Computational and experimental flow techniques, which are commonly used in the study of fluid flows in more traditional engineering contexts, can be translated to medical and biological applications. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), for example, is an important technique for the development of computational thrombosis models. In this lecture, we will explore how the incorporaton of flow enables insight into blood clotting in particular diseases, including brain aneurysms and COVID-19.

Malebogo Ngoepe is 'n medeprofessor in die Departement Meganiese Ingenieurswese aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad. Haar navorsing fokus op die toepassing van meganika op biologiese en mediese onderwerpe, insluitend trombose, aangebore hartsiektes en krulhare. Sy het 'n DPhil in Ingenieurswetenskap aan die Universiteit van Oxford verwerf as 'n Rhodes-beurshouer. Sy dien tans as sekretaresse vir die South African Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.