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Gualtiero Guadagni, formerly a Ph.D. student in the Department of Bioengineering
at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and now an employee at Fluent Italy,
was one of the co-authors on a paper that recently won the Perkins Prize
2002 for the best paper published in 2001 in the journal Medical Engineering
and Physics, a publication of the Institute of Physics and Engineering
in Medicine in the UK. The paper, entitled Fluid structure interaction
within realistic three-dimensional models of the aneurysmatic aorta as
a guidance to assess the risk of rupture of the aneurysm, by E.
S. Di Martino, G. Guadagni, A. Fumero, G. Ballerini, R. Spirito, P. Biglioli,
and A. Redaelli, described work done using FIDAP to study the transient
flow through an aortic aneurysm during a cardiac cycle.

Shear stress on the aortic wall
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