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The effect of parallel combined steady and oscillatory shear flows on blood and polymer solutions

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Human blood at physiological volume concentration exhibits non-Newtonian and thixotropic properties. The blood flow in the microcirculation is pulsatile, initiated from the heart pulse and can be considered as superposition of two partial flows: a) a steady shear, and b) an oscillatory shear. Until now steady and viscoelastic behavior were separately investigated. Here we present the response to the combination of steady and oscillatory shear for human blood, a high molecular weight aqueous polymer solution (polyacrylamide AP 273E) and an aqueous xanthan gum solution. The polyacrylamide and xanthan solutions are fluids that model the rheological properties of human blood. In general, parameters describing blood viscoelasticity became less pronounced as superimposed steady shear increased, especially at low shear region and by elasticity, associated with reduction in RBC aggregation. The response of polymer solutions to superposition shows qualitative similarities with blood by elasticity, but their quantitative response differed from that of blood. By viscosity another behavior was observed. The superposition effect on viscous component was described by a modified Carreau equation and for the elastic component by an exponential equation.

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  1. Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Hospital Charité Humboldt University, Ziegelstraße 5/9, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Georgios Vlastos, Odette Samba & Manfred Pohl

  2. L. U. M. GmbH Rudower Chaussee 5 (IGZ), 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Dietmar Lerche & Brigitte Koch

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Vlastos, G., Lerche, D., Koch, B. et al. The effect of parallel combined steady and oscillatory shear flows on blood and polymer solutions. Rheola Acta 36, 160–172 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366822

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