scholarly journals Significance of Slippage and Electric Field in Mucociliary Transport of Biomagnetic Fluid

Lubricants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Sufian Munawar

Shear stress at the cilia wall is considered as an imperative factor that affects the efficiency of cilia beatings as it describes the momentum transfer between the fluid and the cilia. We consider a visco-inelastic Prandtl fluid in a ciliated channel under electro-osmotic pumping and the slippage effect at cilia surface. Cilia beating is responsible for the stimulation of the flow in the channel. Evenly distributed cilia tend to move in a coordinated rhythm to mobilize propulsive metachronal waves along the channel surface by achieving elliptic trajectory movements in the flow direction. After using lubrication approximations, the governing equations are solved by the perturbation method. The pressure rise per metachronal wavelength is obtained by numerically integrating the expression. The effects of the physical parameters of interest on various flow quantities, such as velocity, pressure gradient, pressure rise, stream function, and shear stress at the ciliated wall, are discussed through graphs. The analysis reveals that the axial velocity is enhanced by escalating the Helmholtz–Smoluchowski velocity and the electro-osmosis effects near the elastic wall. The shear stress at the ciliated boundary elevates with an increase in the cilia length and the eccentricity of the cilia structure.

2014 ◽  
Vol 07 (06) ◽  
pp. 1450066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen Sher Akbar ◽  
Adil Wahid Butt

This study describes ciliary motion on the transport of fluids in human body with heat transfer. The mathematical model of the flow of a Jeffrey fluid in a tube of finite length is considered due to metachronal wave of cilia motion. Flow equations have been modeled and simplified using similarity variables. Exact solutions of the formulated problem have been obtained for velocity, temperature and pressure gradient and graphs for velocity, pressure rise, pressure gradient and temperature profile have been plotted and studied for different values of specific physical parameters. Trapping phenomena and isotherms are presented at the end of the paper.


Author(s):  
G. Manjunatha ◽  
C. Rajashekhar ◽  
K. V. Prasad ◽  
Hanumesh Vaidya ◽  
Saraswati

The present article addresses the peristaltic flow of a Jeffery fluid over an inclined axisymmetric porous tube with varying viscosity and thermal conductivity. Velocity slip and convective boundary conditions are considered. Resulting governing equations are solved using long wavelength and small Reynolds number approximations. The closed-form solutions are obtained for velocity, streamline, pressure gradient, temperature, pressure rise, and frictional force. The MATLAB numerical simulations are utilized to compute pressure rise and frictional force. The impacts of various physical parameters in the interims for time-averaged flow rate with pressure rise and is examined. The consequences of sinusoidal, multi-sinusoidal, triangular, trapezoidal, and square waveforms on physiological parameters are analyzed and discussed through graphs. The analysis reveals that the presence of variable viscosity helps in controlling the pumping performance of the fluid.


1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Høgh Jensen ◽  
J. C. Refsgaard

A numerical analysis of solute transport in two spatially heterogeneous fields is carried out assuming that the fields are composed of ensembles of one-dimensional non-interacting soil columns, each column representing a possible soil profile in statistical terms. The basis for the analysis is the flow simulation described in Part II (Jensen and Refsgaard, this issue), which serves as input to a transport model based on the convection-dispersion equation. The simulations of the average and variation in solute concentration in planes perpendicular to the flow direction are compared to measurements obtained from tracer experiments carried out at the two fields. Due to the limited amount of measurement data, it is difficult to draw conclusive evidence of the simulations, but reliable simulations are obtained of the mean behaviour within the two fields. The concept of equivalent soil properties is also tested for the transport problem in heterogeneous soils. Based on effective parameters for the retention and hydraulic conductivity functions it is possible to predict the mean transport in the two experimental fields.


Author(s):  
Karol Calò ◽  
Giuseppe De Nisco ◽  
Diego Gallo ◽  
Claudio Chiastra ◽  
Ayla Hoogendoorn ◽  
...  

Atherosclerosis at the early stage in coronary arteries has been associated with low cycle-average wall shear stress magnitude. However, parallel to the identification of an established active role for low wall shear stress in the onset/progression of the atherosclerotic disease, a weak association between lesions localization and low/oscillatory wall shear stress has been observed. In the attempt to fully identify the wall shear stress phenotype triggering early atherosclerosis in coronary arteries, this exploratory study aims at enriching the characterization of wall shear stress emerging features combining correlation-based analysis and complex networks theory with computational hemodynamics. The final goal is the characterization of the spatiotemporal and topological heterogeneity of wall shear stress waveforms along the cardiac cycle. In detail, here time-histories of wall shear stress magnitude and wall shear stress projection along the main flow direction and orthogonal to it (a measure of wall shear stress multidirectionality) are analyzed in a representative dataset of 10 left anterior descending pig coronary artery computational hemodynamics models. Among the main findings, we report that the proposed analysis quantitatively demonstrates that the model-specific inlet flow-rate shapes wall shear stress time-histories. Moreover, it emerges that a combined effect of low wall shear stress magnitude and of the shape of the wall shear stress–based descriptors time-histories could trigger atherosclerosis at its earliest stage. The findings of this work suggest for new experiments to provide a clearer determination of the wall shear stress phenotype which is at the basis of the so-called arterial hemodynamic risk hypothesis in coronary arteries.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saima Noreen

Abstract This research is devoted to the peristaltic flow of Eyring-Powell nanofluid in an asymmetric channel. Robins-type (convective) boundary conditions are employed in the presence of mixed convection and magnetic field. The basic equations of Eyring-Powell nanofluid are modeled in wave frame of reference. Long wavelength and low Reynolds number approach is utilized. Numerical solution of the governing problem is computed and analyzed. The effects of various parameters of interest on the velocity, pressure rise, concentration and temperature are discussed and illustrated graphically. Brownian motion parameter and thermophoresis parameter facilitates the increase in temperature of fluid. Biot numbers serve to reduce the temperature at channel walls.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajaz Ahmad Dar ◽  
K. Elangovan

Purpose This paper aims to intend for investigating the influence of an inclined magnetic field on the peristaltic flow of a couple stress fluid through an inclined channel with heat and mass transfer. Design/methodology/approach Long wavelength and low Reynolds number methodology is actualized for simplifying the highly nonlinear equations. Mathematical expressions of axial velocity, pressure gradient and volume flow rate are obtained. Pressure rise, frictional force and pumping phenomenon are portrayed and symbolized graphically. Exact and numerical solutions have been carried out. The computed results are presented graphically for various embedded parameters. Temperature and concentration profile are also scrutinized and sketched. Findings Results from the current study concluded that the fluid motion can be enhanced by increasing the inclination of both the magnetic field and the channel. Originality/value The elemental characteristics of this analysis is a complete interpretation of the influence of couple stress parameter and inclination of magnetic field on the velocity, pressure gradient, pressure rise and frictional forces.


Author(s):  
U. P. Singh ◽  
Amit Medhavi ◽  
R. S. Gupta ◽  
Siddharth Shankar Bhatt

The present investigation is concerned with the problem of heat transfer and peristaltic flow of non-Newtonian fluid using Rabinowitsch fluid model through a channel under long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximation. Expressions for velocity, pressure gradient, pressure rise, friction force and temperature have been obtained. The effect of different parameters on velocity, pressure gradient, pressure rise, streamlines, friction force and temperature have been discussed through graphs.


1993 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 1145-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.E. Coan ◽  
A.R. Wechezak ◽  
R.F. Viggers ◽  
L.R. Sauvage

Despite substantial evidence to suggest that directed cell migration is dependent upon positioning of the Golgi apparatus (GA) and the microtubule organizing center (MTOC), some controversy exists about whether such a relationship is relevant to endothelial cells under flow. The present study was undertaken to provide an indepth investigation of the relationship between shear stress, GA/MTOC localization, cell migration and nuclear position. Bovine carotid endothelial cells were exposed to 22 or 88 dynes/cm2 for 0.5, 2, 8 or 24 h, and localization of their GA/MTOCs was determined relative to the direction of flow. In no-flow control specimens, (0, 0.5, 2, 8 and 24 h) there was no change in the equally distributed GA/MTOCs. In contrast, during the first 8 h at 88 dynes/cm2 and by 2 h at 22 dynes/cm2 there was a significant increase in the number of cells with GA/MTOCs localized upstream to flow direction. The effect was temporary, however, and by 24 h there was no significant difference between the no-flow, 22 and 88 dynes/cm2 specimens. Analysis of GA/MTOC localization with respect to the direction of cell migration determined that 72.5% of no-flow cells possessed GA/MTOCs localized to the sides of nuclei nearest the direction of migration. In contrast, 64% of the specimens shear stressed over the same time period had GA/MTOCs localized to the sides of nuclei opposite the direction of migration. These results suggest that positioning of the GA/MTOC in endothelial cells is not dependent completely upon the direction of migration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


Environments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Zhiming Han ◽  
Mitsuharu Terashima ◽  
Bing Liu ◽  
Hidenari Yasui

A modified spacer, which was constructed with arched filaments and zigzag filaments, was designed to improve vortex shedding and generate a directional change in flow patterns of membrane modules, especially in the vicinity of the feed spacer filament, which is most affected by fouling. A unit cell was investigated by using a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for hydrodynamic simulation. The results of CFD simulations were carried out for the fluid flow in order to understand the effect of the modified spacer on vortices to the performance of arched filaments at different distances. From 2D velocity vectors and shear stress contour mixing, the flow pattern and dead zone flushing were depicted. The ratio of low shear stress area to the total area increased with the inlet velocity closed to 20%. The energy consumption with respect to flow direction for the arched filament was 80% lower than that in the zigzag filament. Compared with previous commercial spacers’ simulation, the friction factor was lower when the main flow was normal to the arched filament and the modified friction factor was close to the commercial spacers. The homogenization was realized through the flow pattern created by the modified spacer.


2020 ◽  
Vol 318 (6) ◽  
pp. G1013-G1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Kikuchi ◽  
Hyeongtak Noh ◽  
Keiko Numayama-Tsuruta ◽  
Takuji Ishikawa

Transport in gut is important, not only for digestion, metabolism, and nutrient uptake, but also for microbiotic circumstance; however, hydrodynamic effects in the intestine have not been fully clarified. We provide the first quantitative evidence of the mechanical roles of anterograde and retrograde intestinal peristalses in the larval fish of Danio rerio by adopting physical parameters of diffusivity and pressure rise. The intestine transitionally regulates mixing and pumping functions by peristaltic propagations after feeding.


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