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Microfluidic Flow Chambers Using Reconstituted Blood to Model Hemostasis and Platelet Transfusion In Vitro
Published on: March 19, 2016
Blood flow multiscale phenomena
Ante Agić1, Budimir Mijović, Tatjana Nikolić
1Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. aagic@marie.fkit.hr
Abstract:
The cardiovascular disease is one of most frequent cause deaths in modern society. The objective of this work is analyse the effect of dynamic vascular geometry (curvature, torsion, bifurcation) and pulsatile blood nature on secondary flow, wall shear stress and platelet deposition. The problem was examined as multi-scale physical phenomena using perturbation analysis and numerical modelling. The secondary flow determined as influence pulsatile pressure, vascular tube time-dependent bending and torsion on the main axial flow. Bifurcation and branching phenomena are analysed experimentally through, blood-like fluid pulsatile flow across elastic rubber-like Y-model model. The problem complex geometry near branching in platelet deposit modelling is resolved numerically as Falker-Skan flow.
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