Basically, biomechanical stent modeling can be divided into three areas. The first area belongs to the modeling related to the mechanical properties of the stent, the checking of the stress states of deformations, the arrangement of the voltage on the wall of the blood vessel, etc. and mainly these tests are based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). It is very important to carry out all the tests at this stage in order to find out all design defects in time, because any irregularity discovered later requires a return to this stage and a re-testing, and this can be a very "expensive" step both materially and temporally. In the second area, the influence of the stent design itself (for example, the shape and layout of the sticks) on the flow of fluid (blood) within the blood vessel is studied and is based on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), an area belonging to the FEM. In the third area, it is also investigated and tested for the release of the drug in DES stents and its spreading through the bloodstream, penetration into the blood wall.

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