A GPU-Enabled Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics Software Package for In-Flow Red Blood Cell Dynamics

As part of my PhD research under the supervision of Professor Fergal Boyle, I am currently developing a red-blood-cell-incorporating CFD software package for cardiovascular-system fluid flow analysis. The software being developed is a 3D C++ CUDA Lattice Boltzmann Immersed Boundary Blood Simulator (CULBIBBS) for coupling with a state-of-the-art spring-network-based red blood cell model.

Sphere falling through a fluid

Sphere freely rotating in shear flow

Behaviour of the red blood cell model while stretching (Optical Tweezers test case)

Publications

Validation of an In-House 3D CUDA Coupled Lattice Boltzmann Immersed Boundary CFD Solver for Sedimentation of a Sphere

Gerald Gallagher, Fergal J. Boyle

Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, vol. 24, 2021 Sep

CULBIBBS: A CUDA Lattice Boltzmann Immersed Boundary Blood Solver for Cardiovascular-System Fluid Flow Analysis

Gerald Gallagher, Fergal J. Boyle

Bioengineering in Ireland, Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 2020 Jan

Developments Toward a Red-Blood-Cell-Incorporating Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver For Cardiovascular-System Fluid Flow Analysis

Gerald Gallagher, Fergal J. Boyle

INSPIRE, TU Dublin, 2019 May