Effects of shear-dependent viscosity and hematocrit on blood flow

Ameenuddin, Mohammed and Mohan, Anand and Massoudi, Mehrdad (2019) Effects of shear-dependent viscosity and hematocrit on blood flow. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 356. pp. 299-311. ISSN 0096-3003

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Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed a new non-linear constitutive model for blood with a viscosity which depends on the shear rate and the volume fraction of red blood cells or RBCs (hematocrit). The viscosity correlation is obtained from the experimental data reported in the literature. The governing equations for flow between two flat plates are made dimensionless and solved numerically. A parametric study is performed to study the effect of the four non-dimensional numbers K1 (a relative measure of the pressure gradient to viscous forces), K2 (a relative measure of gravitational force to pressure gradient in the direction of the gravity), N (dimensionless average hematocrit of blood), and ϕm (maximum packing fraction of RBCs). The results show good qualitative agreement with other studies.

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IITH Creators:	IITH Creators ORCiD Anand, Mohan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-4991
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	BloodNon-Newtonian fluids, Shear-dependent viscosity, HematocritSuspension
Subjects:	Chemical Engineering
Divisions:	Department of Chemical Engineering
Depositing User:	Team Library
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2019 09:57
Last Modified:	30 May 2022 08:42
URI:	http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/4937
Publisher URL:	http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.03.028
OA policy:	http://sherpa.mimas.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0096-3003/
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