Effects of Non-Newtonian Behavior of Blood on Wall Shear Stress in an Elastic Vessel with Simple and Consecutive Stenosis

Research on the development and incidence of cardiovascular diseases has revealed the importance of vascular wall shear stress. In this paper, the vascular wall shear stress was numerically simulated in an elastic vessel with simple and consecutive Stenosis during a pulsatile laminar non-Newtonian blood flow using ADINA 8.8. The cross-sectional area of the studied stenosis was 70% of the unstenosed vascular cross-sectional area. The results of the simple stenosis were compared with those of the double stenosis. Five non-Newtonian models of Carreau, Carreau-Yasuda, Casson, Power Law, and Generalized Power Law were employed to simulate the non-Newtonian properties of blood. The axial velocity values at the maximum flow rate showed that in both simple and consecutive Stenosis, the highest and lowest axial velocities occur in the Generalized Power Law and Power Law models, respectively. Wall shear stress profiles at the maximum flow rate showed that the Power Law model underestimates the stress values compared to other non-Newtonian models and the Newtonian model. In general, results showed that the Power Law model is not suitable for simulating the non-Newtonian behavior of blood.

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