In vitro blood flows through small tubes

Issue title: New Methods in Biorheology. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Nancy, France, 17–18 August 1983. A Satellite Symposium of the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology

Guest editors: J.F. Stoltz and E. Puchelle

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bitoun, J.P. | Ly, D.P. | Bellet, D.

Affiliations: Groupe de Rhéologie, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, 2, rue Charles Camichel, 31071 Toulouse Cedex, France

Abstract: This text recalls the main sequences of a videofilm in which we have looked at the blood flow through small diameter tubes, varying from 200 to 500 μm diameter, using a video equipment where the camera is fixed to a phase contrast microscope. Flows of two fluid model through converging-diverging small tubes have been studied both theoretically and experimentally, where we have considered the influence of tube diameter, stenosis, flow rate, haematocrit upon the red blood cells repartitions and the thickness of peripheral plasma layer.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-23S127

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 23, no. s1, pp. 151-153, 1984