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Pulsatile flow of a two-phase model for blood flow through arterial stenosis is analyzed through a mathematical analysis. The effects of pulsatility, stenosis, peripheral layer and non-Newtonian behavior of blood, assuming the blood in the core region as a Herschel-Bulkley fluid and the plasma in the peripheral layer as a Newtonian fluid, are discussed. A perturbation method is used to solve the resulting system of non-linear quasi-steady differential equations. The expressions for velocity, wall shear stress, plug core radius, flow rate and resistance to flow are obtained. It is noticed that the plug core radius and resistance to flow increase as the stenosis size increases while all other parameters held constant The wall shear stress increases with the increase of yield stress while keeping other parameters as invariables. It is observed that the velocity increases with the axial distance in the stenosed region of the tube upto the maximum projection of the stenosis.
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Sankar, D.S., Lee, U. Two-phase non-linear model for the flow through stenosed blood vessels. J Mech Sci Technol 21, 678–689 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026973
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