J Boyd and J M Buick 2007 Phys. Med. Biol. 52 6215 doi:10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/009
Comparison of Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows in a two-dimensional carotid artery model using the lattice Boltzmann method
J Boyd and J M Buick
Show affiliationsNumerical modelling is a powerful tool for the investigation of human blood flow and arterial diseases such as atherosclerosis. It is known that near wall shear is important in the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis. When modelling arterial blood flow it is generally assumed that blood is Newtonian. In this paper, blood flow is modelled in a realistic two-dimensional carotid artery geometry in order to investigate this assumption and its effect on the measurement of near wall shear. The assumption is tested in stenosed and unstenosed geometries and the non-Newtonian blood is modelled using the Carreau–Yasuda model. It is found that the velocity and shear fields, particularly near the walls of the geometries, exhibit small differences in general (<5%) between Newtonian and non-Newtonian models, even in the stenosed geometry with peak differences of 13.6%. Thus, when using numerical modelling to study the haemodynamic influences on atherosclerotic progression, we can safely neglect the non-Newtonian nature of blood.
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87.19.R- Mechanical and electrical properties of tissues and organs
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Issue 20 (21 October 2007)
Received 6 June 2007, in final form 23 August 2007
Published 1 October 2007
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Comparison of Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows in a two-dimensional carotid artery model using the lattice Boltzmann method
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