Co-Researcher (RIKEN): Mehran Tadjfar   Areas of study 1. Development of CFD solver. 2. Peristaltic flow - Flow due to a moving constriction in a tube. 3. Flow into branches. a) Steady flow b) Pulsatile flow 4. Flow into arterial branches from MRI data. a) Aorta b) Cerebral branch Sample figures and movies are included in separate directories. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: [1] Tadjfar, M., "Influence of inflow condition on the ascending aortic bifurcation", 2004, In preparation. [2] Tadjfar M., "Flow into an Arterial Branch Model", 2004, submitted to Journal of Engineering Mathematics. [3] Tadjfar, M., "Branch Angle and Flow into a symmetric bifurcation", 2004 To appear in ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (June 2004). [4] Tadjfar, M., "Influence of Bifurcation Angle on Flow into A Branch", Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, K. J. Bath (Editor), 2003, ELSEVIER [5] Tadjfar, M. and Smith, F. T. "Direct Simulation and Modeling of Basic Three-dimensional Bifurcation Tube Flows", 2004, To appear in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. [6] Smith, F.T., Purvis, R., Dennis, S.C.R., Jones, M.A., Ovendon, N.C., and Tadjfar, M. "Fluid Flows Through Various Branching Tubes", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Vol. 47, pp. 277-298, Dec 2003. [7] Tadjfar, M. and Himeno, R. "Time-Accurate, Parallel, Multi-Zone, Multi-Block Solver to Study the Human Cardio-Vascular System". Journal of Biorheology, Vol. 39, pp. 379-384, 2002.