Blood flow in arteries

These days everybody is talking about ginkgo biloba, a concentrate made from the extracts of the leaves of a tree that has been around for over two hundred million years. The species was brought from China to Europe in the eighteenth century, and it became a popular decorative tree. It also serves a medicinal purpose. The leaves are picked, dried, and ground to a powder. This powder is extracted with an acetone-water mixture, and then these solvents are evaporated off. The residue that remains is compacted into a variety of pills. Several components of this residue may have beneficial effects in particular, they may improve circulation to the brain. Clinical studies have confirmed that ginkgo extracts dilate blood vessels and improve blood flow in arteries and capillaries. Two classes of... 

Gardemann, A., Stmlik, H., and Jungermann, K. (1987). Nervous control of glycogenolysis and blood flow in arterially and portally perfused liver Am. J. Physiol. 253, E238-E245. 

The laminar pulsatile flow in a plane duct can be treated as the simplest unsteady problem in basic fluid mechanics with applications, for instance, to engineering vibrators [199, 507], In biological and medical fluid mechanics, one meets the pulsating blood flow in arteries and the air flow in lungs. The generalization of such flows was suggested in literature [598, 601], and is of interest for this chapter. 

McDonald D.A. 1974. Blood Flow in Arteries, 2nd ed., Baltimore, Williams WiUdns. 

Another example of scaling invariance can be found in blood flow in arteries. A dimensional matrix is first formed by incorporating parameters that are thought of as pertinent. These are the density (p) and viscosity r]) of the fluid, diameter (D) of the blood vessel, and velocities of the flowing blood (v) and of the pulse wave (c). 

Nichols, W. W., O Rourke, M. F., McDonald"s Blood Flow in Arteries Theoretical, experimental, and clinical... 

McDonald DA (1979) Blood Flow in Arteries. 2nd ed. London Edward Arnold Nerem RM, Rumber JA, Gross DR, Muir WW, Geiger GL (1976) Hot-film coronary artery velocity meaurements in horses. Cardiovasc Res 3 310-313 Nerem RM, Seed WQ (1983) Coronary artery geometry and its fluid mechanical implications. In Schettler G etal. (eds) Fluid Dynamics as a Localizing Factor for Atherosclerosis. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, FRG... 

Any liquid inside a large beaker has almost a flat surface. However, the same liquid inside a fine tubing will be found to be curved at the surface (Figure 1.12). In other words, the cnrved liquid surface gives rise to some very characteristic properties, which one finds in everyday life (e.g., water flow in earth, oil recovery from reservoirs, blood flow in arteries) (Mnrrant and... 

The computational model provides some detailed information on the details of blood flow in arterial bifurcations. 

Taylor, C.A., Hughes, T.J.R., Zarins, C.K. Finite Element Modeling of Blood Flow in Arteries. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 158,155-196... 

W. W. Nichols and M. F. O Rourke, McDonald s Blood Flow in Arteries Theoretic, Experimented and Clinical Principles (5th ed.), London Hodder Arnold, 2005. 

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