title: The effects of exercise on blood flow with reference to the human cardiovascular system: a finite element study.
abstract: This paper reports on a theoretical investigation into the effects of vasomotion on blood through the human cardiovascular system. The finite element method has been used to analyse the model. Vasoconstriction and vasodilation may be effected either through the action of the central nervous system or autoregulation. One of the conditions responsible for vasomotion is exercise. The proposed model has been solved and quantitative results of flows and pressures due to changing the conductances of specific networks of arterioles, capillaries and venules comprising the arms, legs, stomach and their combinations have been obtained.
authors.affiliation: Biophysics Department, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Sud
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Charles
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Bungo
mesh_terms: D001775:Blood Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular