scholarly journals Effect of Externally Applied Transverse Magnetic Field on Unsteady Flow of Blood in Tapered Stenosed Artery

The role of flow parameters of blood is very important in maintaining proper functioning of heart and in turn health body. Herschel–Bulkley fluid model is used for the proposed one-fluid blood flow model. The behavior of important blood flow characteristics wall shear stress, volumetric flow rate and axial velocity of the flow in tapered mild stenosed artery in the presence of externally applied transverse magnetic field is studied. A combination of analytical and numerical methods is used to solve the mathematical model of the system. We report the importance constant/variable viscosity of blood on unsteady flow in the proposed artery. Numerical results are reported for different values of the physical parameters of interest. It is observed with the help of graphs, that the flow characteristics wall shear stress, volumetric flow rate and axial velocity are affected in tapered stenosed artery and flow can be regulated with the help externally applied transverse magnetic field.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neetu Srivastava

Analytical investigation of MHD blood flow in a porous inclined stenotic artery under the influence of the inclined magnetic field has been done. Blood is considered as an electrically conducting Newtonian fluid. The physics of the problem is described by the usual MHD equations along with appropriate boundary conditions. The flow governing equations are finally transformed to nonhomogeneous second-order ordinary differential equations. This model is consistent with the principles of magnetohydrodynamics. Analytical expressions for the velocity profile, volumetric flow rate, wall shear stress, and pressure gradient have been derived. Blood flow characteristics are computed for a specific set of values of the different parameters involved in the model analysis and are presented graphically. Some of the obtained results show that the flow patterns in converging region (ξ<0), diverging region (ξ>0), and nontapered region (ξ=0) are effectively influenced by the presence of magnetic field and change in inclination of artery as well as magnetic field. There is also a significant effect of permeability on the wall shear stress as well as volumetric flow rate.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (26) ◽  
pp. 3455-3471 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. TRIPATHI ◽  
T. HAYAT ◽  
N. ALI ◽  
S. K. PANDEY

This paper investigates the peristaltic flow of viscoelastic fluid represented by Jeffrey model in presence of transverse magnetic field under long wavelength and low Reynolds number assumptions. The expressions of pressure gradient, volume flow rate, average volume flow rate and local wall shear stress are obtained. The effects of transverse magnetic field, electrical conductivity (i.e., Hartman number M), relaxation time and retardation time on pressure difference, local wall shear stress, and mechanical efficiency of peristaltic pump are discussed. Reflux limit for viscoelastic fluid is also found and the effects of all parameters on reflux phenomena are discussed. Comparative study of integral and nonintegral number of waves propagate in a train is presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Nandal ◽  
S. Kumari ◽  
R. Rathee

Abstract In this analysis, we present a theoretical study to examine the combined effect of both slip velocity and periodic body acceleration on an unsteady generalized non-Newtonian blood flow through a stenosed artery with permeable wall. A constant transverse magnetic field is applied on the peristaltic flow of blood, treating it as an elastico-viscous, electrically conducting and incompressible fluid. Appropriate transformation methods are adopted to solve the unsteady non-Newtonian axially symmetric momentum equation in the cylindrical polar coordinate system with suitably prescribed conditions. To validate the applicability of the proposed analysis, analytical expressions for the axial velocity, fluid acceleration, wall shear stress and volumetric flow rate are computed and for having an adequate insight to blood flow behavior through a stenosed artery, graphs have been plotted with varying values of flow variables, to analyse the influence of the axial velocity, wall shear stress and volumetric flow rate of streaming blood.


Author(s):  
C. Umadevi ◽  
G. Harpriya ◽  
M. Dhange ◽  
G. Nageswari

The flow of blood mixed with copper nanoparticles in an overlapping stenosed artery is reported in the presence of a magnetic field. The presence of stenosis is known to impede blood flow and to be the cause of different cardiac diseases. The governing nonlinear equations are rendered dimensionless and attempted under the conditions of mild stenosis. The analytical solutions for velocity, resistance to the flow, wall shear stress, temperature, and streamlines are obtained and analyzed through graphs. The obtained outcomes show that the temperature variation in copper nanoparticles concentrated blood is more and flow resistance is less when compared to pure blood. The investigations reveal that copper nanoparticles are effective to reduce the hemodynamics of stenosis and could be helpful in biomedical applications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Shit ◽  
M. Roy ◽  
A. Sinha

This paper presents a theoretical study of blood flow through a tapered and overlapping stenosed artery under the action of an externally applied magnetic field. The fluid (blood) medium is assumed to be porous in nature. The variable viscosity of blood depending on hematocrit (percentage volume of erythrocytes) is taken into account in order to improve resemblance to the real situation. The governing equation for laminar, incompressible and Newtonian fluid subject to the boundary conditions is solved by using a well known Frobenius method. The analytical expressions for velocity component, volumetric flow rate, wall shear stress and pressure gradient are obtained. The numerical values are extracted from these analytical expressions and are presented graphically. It is observed that the influence of hematocrit, magnetic field and the shape of artery have important impact on the velocity profile, pressure gradient and wall shear stress. Moreover, the effect of primary stenosis on the secondary one has been significantly observed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiman Alshare ◽  
Bourhan Tashtoush ◽  
Hossam H. El-Khalil

Steady flow simulations of blood flow in an axisymmetric stenosed artery, subjected to a static magnetic field, are performed to investigate the influence of artery size, magnetic field strength, and non-Newtonian behavior on artery wall shear stress and pressure drop in the stenosed section. It is found that wall shear stress and pressure drop increase by decreasing artery size, assuming non-Newtonian fluid, and increasing magnetic field strength. In the computations, the shear thinning behavior of blood is accounted for by the Carreau–Yasuda model. Computational results are compared and found to be inline with available experimental data.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Medhavi

The present study concerns with the effects of the hematocrit and the peripheral layer on blood flow characteristics due to the presence of a bell shaped stenosis in arteries. To account for the hematocrit and the peripheral layer, the flowing blood has been represented by a two-layered macroscopic two-phase (i.e., a suspension of red cells in plasma) model. The expressions for the flow characteristics, namely, the velocity profiles, the flow rate, the impedance, the wall shear stress in the stenotic region and the shear stress at the stenosis throat have been derived. The quantitative effects of the hematocrit and the peripheral layer on these flow characteristics have been displayed graphically and discussed briefly.


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