Pulsatile flow of Herschel–Bulkley fluid through stenosed arteries—A mathematical model

Abstract In this paper, the pulsatile flow of blood through stenosed artery is studied. The effects of pulsatility, stenosis and non-Newtonian behavior of blood, assuming the blood to be represented by Herschel–Bulkley fluid, are simultaneously considered. A perturbation method is used to analyze the flow assuming the thickness of plug core region to be non-uniform changing with axial distance. An expression for the variation of plug core radius with time and axial distance is obtained. The variation of pressure gradient with steady flow rate is given. Also the variation of wall shear stress distribution as well as resistance to flow with axial distance for different values of time and for different values of yield stress is given and the results analyzed.

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