Abstract
The pulsatile flow of blood through stenosed arteries is analyzed by assuming the blood as a two-fluid model with the suspension of all the erythrocytes in the core region as a non-Newtonian fluid and the plasma in the peripheral layer as a Newtonian fluid. The non-Newtonian fluid in the core region of the artery is assumed as a (i) Herschel-Bulkley fluid and (ii) Casson fluid. Perturbation method is used to solve the resulting system of non-linear partial differential equations. Expressions for various flow quantities are obtained for the two-fluid Casson model. Expressions of the flow quantities obtained by Sankar and Lee (2006) for the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model are used to get the data for comparison. It is found that the plug flow velocity and velocity distribution of the two-fluid Casson model are considerably higher than those of the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model. It is also observed that the pressure drop, plug core radius, wall shear stress and the resistance to flow are significantly very low for the two-fluid Casson model than those of the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model. Hence, the two-fluid Casson model would be more useful than the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model to analyze the blood flow through stenosed arteries.
Highlights
There are many evidences that vascular fluid dynamics plays a major role in the development and progression of arterial stenosis
The pulsatile flow of blood through stenosed arteries is analyzed by assuming blood as a i two-fluid Casson model and ii two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model
It is noticed that the pressure drop, plug core radius, wall shear stress, and the resistance to flow of the two-fluid Casson model are significantly much lower than those of the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model
Summary
There are many evidences that vascular fluid dynamics plays a major role in the development and progression of arterial stenosis. Arteries are narrowed by the development of atherosclerotic plaques that protrude into the lumen, resulting arterial stenosis. When an obstruction developed in an artery, one of the most serious consequences is the increased resistance and the associated reduction of the blood flow to the particular vascular bed supplied by the artery. The presence of a stenosis leads to the serious circulatory disorder. Several theoretical and experimental attempts were made to study the blood flow characteristics in the presence of stenosis 1–8. The assumption of Newtonian behavior of Boundary Value Problems δP δC μN , uN
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