Hydrocephalus is a cerebral disease wherein the brain ventricles dilate and compress the parenchyma. The reference work [1] illustrates the ventricle dilation in an axial section of a brain captured by computed tomography (CT) scans in a patient with normal-pressure hydrocephalus. In our simulation, the following axial section of a brain tomography scan is considered for analysis:

Figure 50.1: Schematic of Brain Axial Section with Boundary Conditions

Pressure and thermal loading will be applied to the ventricle. The soil analysis option (ANTYPE,SOIL) and consolidation option (SSOPT,CONSOLIDATION) are performed to determine the pore-pressure and temperature distributions.