Concentration effects in oscillatory blood flow

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kline, Kenneth A. | Allen, Stuart J.

Affiliations: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Abstract: A continuum model of fluid suspensions is applied to the problem of unsteady tube flow of a fluid in which deformations of suspended particles are negligible. An expression is obtained for the volumetric flow rate as a function of suspension concentration. The solution is shown to reduce, as the suspension concentration goes to zero, to the classical solution of Womersley [J. Physiol. 127, 553, 1955]. Tables are given to allow easy calculation of flow terms for various concentrations.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1969-6204

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 99-108, 1969