Numerical Investigation of Oxygenated and Deoxygenated Blood Flow through a Tapered Stenosed Arteries in Magnetic Field

PLoS One. 2016 Dec 12;11(12):e0167393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167393. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Current paper is focused on transient modeling of blood flow through a tapered stenosed arteries surrounded a by solenoid under the presence of heat transfer. The oxygenated and deoxygenated blood are considered here by the Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluid (power law and Carreau-Yasuda) models. The governing equations of bio magnetic fluid flow for an incompressible, laminar, homogeneous, non-Newtonian are solved by finite volume method with SIMPLE algorithm for structured grid. Both magnetization and electric current source terms are well thought-out in momentum and energy equations. The effects of fluid viscosity model, Hartmann number, and magnetic number on wall shear stress, shearing stress at the stenosis throat and maximum temperature of the system are investigated and are optimized. The current study results are in agreement with some of the existing findings in the literature and are useful in thermal and mechanical design of spatially varying magnets to control the drug delivery and biomagnetic fluid flows through tapered arteries.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Arteries*
  • Blood Flow Velocity
  • Blood Viscosity
  • Computer Simulation
  • Hemodynamics*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Fields*
  • Models, Cardiovascular*
  • Oxygen / blood
  • Oxygen / metabolism*
  • Shear Strength
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Oxygen

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.