Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran
Abstract
In this study a mathematical model for two-dimensional pulsatile blood flow through overlapping constricted tapered vessels is presented. In order to establish resemblance to the in vivo conditions, an improved shape of the time-variant overlapping stenosis in the elastic tapered artery subject to pulsatile pressure gradient is considered. Because it contains a suspension of all erythrocytes, the flowing blood is represented by micropolar fluid. By applying a suitable coordinate transformation, tapered cosine-shaped artery turned into non-tapered rectangular and a rigid artery. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations under the imposed realistic boundary conditions are solved using the finite difference method. The effects of vessel tapering on flow characteristics considering their dependencies with time are investigated. The results show that by increasing the taper angle the axial velocity and volumetric flow rate increase and the microrotational velocity and resistive impedance reduce. It has been shown that the results are in agreement with similar data from the literature.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Modeling and Simulation
Cited by
31 articles.
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