@article{Boyd2007:IJMCS,
  author={J Boyd and J M Buick},
  title={Changes in velocity profiles in a two dimensional carotid artery geometry in response to changes in velocity waveforms and a simulated stenosis growth: {A} lattice {Boltzmann} simulation},
  journal={International Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation},
  volume={1},
  number={2},
  pages={160-166},
  url={http://www.naun.org/journals/mcs/mcs-24.pdf},
  year={2007},
  abstract={It is known that low near wall velocity and shear stress
are correlated to the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis
in the human arterial system. Obtaining accurate in vivo measurements 
of these variables is non-trivial, thus numerical modelling is
often a powerful tool in the investigation of human arterial blood flow
and cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. In this paper the
Lattice Boltzmann Method is used to simulate blood flow in a human
carotid artery geometry for three different pulsatile waveforms. A
simulated stenosis growth is implemented and variations in velocity
prles across three regions of the artery are examined. Many of the
flow features relating to the incidence of atherosclerosis described in
the literature are observed. Significant changes in the velocity across
the artery are seen in response to the simulated stenosis growth.}

}