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A method for analyzing non-Newtonian blood viscosity data in low shear rates
1Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan.
Biorheology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Viscosity measurements were made using a coaxial rotating cylinder viscometer for blood having various volume fractions of red cells. A method is described for analyzing non-Newtonian blood viscosity in low shear rates by taking account of an increase or a decrease in size of red cell aggregates induced by shear. Our results are compared with empirical formulae presented by Scott Blair, Weaver-Evans-Walder and Thurston.