A continuum model of blood flow

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Popel, A.S. | Regirer, S.A. | Usick, P.I.

Affiliations: Institute of Mechanics, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Abstract: The continuum approach for blood proposed in this paper is based on a model of fluid with couple stresses, The concentration of red blood cells. their spin velocity and deformation rate are treated as additional unknown variables, satisfying the corresponding additional equations, The exact solution of some viscometric flow problems shows that some of the observed rheological anomalies of blood including Fåhraeus–Lindquist and Segré–Silberberg effects as well as a number of other phenomena can be described satisfactorily by the proposed theory.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1974-11605

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 427-437, 1974