Sn. Majhi et Vr. Nair, PULSATILE FLOW OF 3RD GRADE FLUIDS UNDER BODY ACCELERATION - MODELINGBLOOD-FLOW, International journal of engineering science, 32(5), 1994, pp. 839-846
In normal life the human body is quite often subjected to acceleration
. Prolonged exposure to such accelerations can generate significant ef
fects on the blood circulation and its rheological behavior depending
on the configuration and geometry of the blood vessels. The present st
udy is concerned with a mathematical model for pulsatile blood flow su
bjected to externally-imposed periodic body acceleration by considerin
g blood as a third grade fluid. The effects of the body acceleration o
n the velocity, the flow rate and the wall shear stress are estimated
numerically through an implicit finite difference scheme for femoral a
nd coronary arteries.