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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.