PULSATILE BLOOD-FLOW IN A PIPE

Authors
PONTRELLI G
Citation
G. Pontrelli, PULSATILE BLOOD-FLOW IN A PIPE, Computers & fluids, 27(3), 1998, pp. 367-380
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications",Mechanics,"Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications
Journal title
Computers & fluids → ACNP
ISSN journal
00457930
Volume
27
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
367 - 380
Database
ISI
SICI code
0045-7930(1998)27:3<367:PBIAP>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
The unsteady flow of blood in a straight, long, rigid pipe, driven by an oscillatory pressure gradient is studied. Three different non-newto nian models for blood are considered and compared. One of them turns o ut to offer the best fit of experimental data, when the rheological pa rameters ale suitably fixed. Numerical results are obtained by a spect ral collocation method in space and the implicit trapezoidal finite di fference method in time. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights res erved.