Abstract

Abstract We investigate flow of incompressible fluid in a cylindrical tube with elastic walls. The radius of the tube may change along its length. The discussed problem is connected to the fluid-structure interaction in large human arteries and especially to nonlinear effects. The long-wave approximation is applied to solve model equations. The obtained model Korteweg-deVries equation possessing a variable coefficient is reduced to a nonlinear dynamical system of three first order differential equations. The low probability of a solitary wave arising is shown. Periodic wave solutions of the model system of equations are studied and it is shown that the waves, that are consequence of the irregular heart pulsations may be modelled by a sequence of parts of such periodic wave solutions.

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