Morteza Gharib

Hydrodynamic stability of swimming in ostraciid fishes: role of the carapace in the smooth trunkfish Lactophrys triqueter (Teleostei: Ostraciidae).

Intracardiac fluid forces are an essential epigenetic factor for embryonic cardiogenesis.

Correlation between negative near-wall shear stress in human aorta and various stages of congestive heart failure.

Bubble formation on St. Jude Medical mechanical heart valves: an in-vitro study.

Mitral mechanical heart valves: in vitro studies of their closure, vortex and microbubble formation with possible medical implications.

Sensitivity analysis of kinematic approximations in dynamic medusan swimming models.

Left ventricular form and function: scientific priorities and strategic planning for development of new views of disease.

Body-induced vortical flows: a common mechanism for self-corrective trimming control in boxfishes.

Flow patterns generated by oblate medusan jellyfish: field measurements and laboratory analyses.

Structure function interface with sequential shortening of basal and apical components of the myocardial band.

Can regurgitant flow damage the left atrial endothelium in patients with prosthetic mechanical heart valves?

The role of optimal vortex formation in biological fluid transport.

Four-dimensional cardiac imaging in living embryos via postacquisition synchronization of nongated slice sequences.

International bio-fluid mechanics symposium: position papers and key challenges.

An in vitro study of changing profile heights in mitral bioprostheses and their influence on flow.

Structure/function interface with sequential shortening of basal and apical components of the myocardial band.

Active myocyte shortening during the 'isovolumetric relaxation' phase of diastole is responsible for ventricular suction; 'systolic ventricular filling'.

Optimal vortex formation as an index of cardiac health.

The embryonic vertebrate heart tube is a dynamic suction pump.

Assessment of left ventricular viscoelastic components based on ventricular harmonic behavior.

Rapid three-dimensional imaging and analysis of the beating embryonic heart reveals functional changes during development.

Correlation between vortex ring formation and mitral annulus dynamics during ventricular rapid filling.

Role of vortices in growth of microbubbles at mitral mechanical heart valve closure.

Influence of ventricular pressure drop on mitral annulus dynamics through the process of vortex ring formation.

Estimation of elastic and viscous properties of the left ventricle based on annulus plane harmonic behavior.

Influence of microcalcifications on vulnerable plaque mechanics using FSI modeling.

Three-dimensional real-time imaging of cardiac cell motions in living embryos.

Circumferential strain in the wall of the common carotid artery: comparing displacement-encoded and cine MRI in volunteers.

Physiology in phylogeny: modeling of mechanical driving forces in cardiac development.

On mitral valve dynamics and its connection to early diastolic flow.

Evidence for the existence of a functional helical myocardial band.

Computational models of heart pumping efficiencies based on contraction waves in spiral elastic bands.

Modeling the macro-structure of the heart: healthy and diseased.

Effect of fiber geometry on pulsatile pumping and energy expenditure.

A dynamic double helical band as a model for cardiac pumping.

Echocardiographic particle image velocimetry: a novel technique for quantification of left ventricular blood vorticity pattern.

Reversing blood flows act through klf2a to ensure normal valvulogenesis in the developing heart.

Fifth International Biofluid Mechanics Symposium: position papers and key challenges: Pasadena, March 28-30, 2008.

Analytical method to measure three-dimensional strain patterns in the left ventricle from single slice displacement data.

Color Doppler jet area overestimates regurgitant volume when multiple jets are present.

A physiologically relevant, simple outflow boundary model for truncated vasculature.

Characteristics of vortex formation and thrust performance in drag-based paddling propulsion.

Reversible tuning of the wettability of carbon nanotube arrays: the effect of ultraviolet/ozone and vacuum pyrolysis treatments.

Low pulse pressure with high pulsatile external left ventricular power: influence of aortic waves.

Flow Patterns Around the Carapaces of Rigid-bodied, Multi-propulsor Boxfishes (Teleostei: Ostraciidae).

Controlled partial embedding of carbon nanotubes within flexible transparent layers.

Aortic wave dynamics and its influence on left ventricular workload.