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Pulsatile flow of thixotropic blood in artery under external body acceleration

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  • Louiza Cheffar
  • Abdelhakim Benslimane
  • Djamel Sadaoui
  • Adel Benchabane
  • Karim Bekkour

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This work presents a numerical technique for simulating non-Newtonian blood flow in human’s arteries driven by an oscillating pressure gradient. The blood is considered as a thixotropic fluid and its structural properties are considered to obey Moore’s thixotropic model as a constitutive equation. The equations of motion are simplified considering the flow laminar, axisymmetric and the fluid incompressible. A numerical solution is presented using finite difference method in order to compute the velocity field and wall shear stress distribution. The numerical results obtained have been validated with the analytical solution available in the literature. Furthermore, the effect of the structural properties, the average of the pressure gradient and the external acceleration on the velocity and wall shear stress distribution is investigated. These results reveal the influence of the different parameters studied on the pipe flow response of the thixotropic fluid.

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  • Louiza Cheffar & Abdelhakim Benslimane & Djamel Sadaoui & Adel Benchabane & Karim Bekkour, 2023. "Pulsatile flow of thixotropic blood in artery under external body acceleration," Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(8), pages 927-940, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:gcmbxx:v:26:y:2023:i:8:p:927-940
    DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2022.2098677
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