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A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of LisbonAn Overview of Some Mathematical Models of Blood Rheology

A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon: An Overview of... [Experimental investigations over many years reveal that blood flow exhibits non-Newtonian characteristics such as shear-thinning, viscoelasticity and thixotropic behaviour. The complex rheology of blood is influenced by numerous factors including plasma viscosity, rate of shear, hematocrit, level of erythrocytes aggregation and deformability. Hemodynamic analysis of blood flow in vascular beds and prosthetic devices requires the rheological behaviour of blood to be characterized through appropriate constitutive equations relating the stress to deformation and rate of deformation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of LisbonAn Overview of Some Mathematical Models of Blood Rheology

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2007
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978-1-4020-5689-5
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65 –87
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10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_4
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Abstract

[Experimental investigations over many years reveal that blood flow exhibits non-Newtonian characteristics such as shear-thinning, viscoelasticity and thixotropic behaviour. The complex rheology of blood is influenced by numerous factors including plasma viscosity, rate of shear, hematocrit, level of erythrocytes aggregation and deformability. Hemodynamic analysis of blood flow in vascular beds and prosthetic devices requires the rheological behaviour of blood to be characterized through appropriate constitutive equations relating the stress to deformation and rate of deformation.]

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: Blood rheology; shear-thinning fluid; generalized Newtonian model; viscoelasticity; pressure pulse; wall shear stress

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