Periodic flow of a viscous fluid superposed on steady flow in an orthotropic initially stressed elastic tube

Subtitle: Determination of fluid velocities and displacement components of the wall

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Schwerdt, H. | Constantinesco, A.

Affiliations: Groupe de Biomécanique, Institut de Physique biologique et Institut de Mécanique des Fluides, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Abstract: A mathematical model, which can be applied to the study of blood flow in arteries of great and medium diameter, has been developed by considering the case of pulsatile flow superposed on steady flow in an initially stressed tube of orthotropic elasticity. The components of the fluid velocity and of the wall displacement are determined as functions of the transmural pressure developed in Fourier Series and of the different rheological parameters.11The abstract of this paper appears in Biorheology 12, 81, 1975.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1976-13102

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 7-20, 1976