HEMELB Acceleration and Visualization for Cerebral Aneurysms

Autor: Esfahani, Sahar Soheilian, Zhai, Xiaojun, Chen, Minsi, Amira, Abbes, Bensaali, Faycal, AbiNahed, Julien, Dakua, Sarada, Younes, Georges, Richardson, Robin A., Coveney, Peter V.
Rok vydání: 2019
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: A weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery causing a dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel is known as a cerebral aneurysm. Optimal treatment requires fast and accurate diagnosis of the aneurysm. HemeLB is a fluid dynamics solver for complex geometries developed to provide neurosurgeons with information related to the flow of blood in and around aneurysms. On a cost efficient platform, HemeLB could be employed in hospitals to provide surgeons with the simulation results in real-time. In this work, we developed an improved version of HemeLB for GPU implementation and result visualization. A visualization platform for smooth interaction with end users is also presented. Finally, a comprehensive evaluation of this implementation is reported. The results demonstrate that the proposed implementation achieves a maximum performance of 15,168,964 site updates per second, and is capable of speeding up HemeLB for deployment in hospitals and clinical investigations.
Databáze: arXiv