Blood flow multiscale phenomena.
The cardiovascular disease is one of most frequent cause deaths in modern society. The objective of this work is analyse the effect of dynamic vascular geometry (curvature, torsion, bifurcation) and pulsatile blood nature on secondary flow, wall shear stress and platelet deposition. The problem was examined as multi-scale physical phenomena using perturbation analysis and numerical modelling. The secondary flow determined as influence pulsatile pressure, vascular tube time-dependent bending and torsion on the main axial flow. Bifurcation and branching phenomena are analysed experimentally through, blood-like fluid pulsatile flow across elastic rubber-like Y-model model. The problem complex geometry near branching in platelet deposit modelling is resolved numerically as Falker-Skan flow.
Agić
Ante
A
Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. aagic@marie.fkit.hr
Mijović
Budimir
B
Nikolić
Tatjana
T
D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000502:physiology; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000502:physiology*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D011673:Pulsatile Flow / Q000502:physiology*; D014102:Torsion Abnormality