4. Emerging IFS applications

Modeling fluid-structure interactions is also at the heart of research and applications in biomechanics and bioengineering. Together with in vivo experiments, numerical simulation offers a way of understanding the living world, and IFS is almost universally present in biomechanical problems.

Simulation has two main aims: the first is to help simulate the mechanical behavior of organs (blood vessels, heart, eye, brain, etc.) (figure 23 ); the second is to enable the development of medical equipment (prostheses, catheters, heart valves, etc.).