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Oscillatory Flow Theory

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The pressure-flow relation for steady flow, where only frictional losses are considered (resistance, law of Poiseuille), and the relation between oscillatory or pulsatile pressure and flow when only blood mass (inertance) is taken into consideration, are simplifications of reality.

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  1. Womersley JR. The mathematical analysis of the arterial circulation in a state of oscillatory motion. 1957, Wright Air Dev. Center, Tech Report WADC-TR-56-614.

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  1. Departments of Physiology and Pulmonology ICaR-VU, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Nicolaas Westerhof

  2. Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Nikolaos Stergiopulos

  3. Cardiovascular Medicine, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland

    Mark I. M. Noble

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Westerhof, N., Stergiopulos, N., Noble, M.I.M. (2010). Oscillatory Flow Theory. In: Snapshots of Hemodynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6363-5_8

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