Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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469954 | Computers & Mathematics with Applications | 2008 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
We study the unsteady pulsatile flow of blood in an artery, where the effects of body acceleration are included. The blood is modeled as a modified second-grade fluid where the viscosity and the normal stress coefficients depend on the shear rate. It is assumed that the blood near the wall behaves as a Newtonian fluid, and in the core as a non-Newtonian fluid. This phenomenon is also known as the Fahraeus–Lindqvist effect. The equations are made dimensionless and solved numerically.
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Authors
Mehrdad Massoudi, Tran X. Phuoc,