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Research ArticleBiorheological Model on Flow of Herschel-Bulkley Fluidthrough a Tapered Arterial Stenosis with Dilatation
S. Priyadharshini and R. Ponalagusamy
Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu 620015, India
Correspondence should be addressed to S. Priyadharshini; [email protected]
Received 19 September 2014; Accepted 18 February 2015
Academic Editor: Cecilia Laschi
Copyright ยฉ 2015 S. Priyadharshini and R. Ponalagusamy. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited.
An analysis of blood flow through a tapered artery with stenosis and dilatation has been carried out where the blood is treated asincompressible Herschel-Bulkley fluid. A comparison between numerical values and analytical values of pressure gradient at themidpoint of stenotic region shows that the analytical expression for pressure gradient works well for the values of yield stress till 2.4.The wall shear stress and flow resistance increase significantly with axial distance and the increase is more in the case of convergingtapered artery. A comparison study of velocity profiles, wall shear stress, and flow resistance for Newtonian, power law, Bingham-plastic, andHerschel-Bulkley fluids shows that the variation is greater for Herschel-Bulkley fluid than the other fluids.The obtainedvelocity profiles have been compared with the experimental data and it is observed that blood behaves like a Herschel-Bulkley fluidrather than power law, Bingham, and Newtonian fluids. It is observed that, in the case of a tapered stenosed tube, the streamlinepattern follows a convex pattern when we move from ๐/๐ = 0 to ๐/๐ = 1 and it follows a concave pattern when we move from๐/๐ = 0 to ๐/๐ = โ1. Further, it is of opposite behaviour in the case of a tapered dilatation tube which forms new information thatis, for the first time, added to the literature.
1. Introduction
Blood flow through a stenosed artery is one of the importantareas of research because a stenosed artery affects the entirecardiovascular system. Aortic stenosis causes chest painand decreased blood flow to the brain resulting in loss ofconsciousness and heart failure which increases the risk ofdeath. It is well known that fluid dynamical factors play apivotal role in the formation and development of stenosis.Young [1] and Young and Tsai [2] studied the effects ofstenosis on blood flow through arteries. Several investigators[3โ10] analyzed the blood flow through a stenosed artery andhave shown that the physical parameters affect the blood flow.Pulsatile flow of blood through a stenosed porous mediumunder the influence of periodic body acceleration consideringblood as a Newtonian fluid has been studied by El-Shahed[11]. El-Shehawey et al. [12] have examined the pulsatile flowof blood through a tube considering blood as a Newtonianfluid taking into account the body acceleration and porosity
of the tube. Sharma et al. [13] investigated the effects of radialvariation of hematocrit and magnetic field on the flow ofblood as a Newtonian fluid through a porous medium in astenosed artery.
Viscoplastic materials are concentrated suspensions ofsolid particles or macromolecules and are classified asgeneralized Newtonian fluids. They flow like liquids whensubjected to a stress above a critical value but respond aselastic or inelastic solids below this critical stress. Accordingto the von Mises yield criterion, flow is assumed to occurwhen the second invariant of the stress exceeds the so-calledyield stress [4]. It is understood that the important time-independent non-Newtonian fluid possessing a fluid behav-ior index (power law index) and yield values is the Herschel-Bulkley fluid, which has pivotal applications in polymerprocessing industries [12], developing blood oxygenators, andbiomechanics [4]. Further, Herschel-Bulkley fluids includeboth shear thinning and shear thickening materials. Thepractical examples of such materials are greases, colloidal
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suspensions, starch pastes, tooth pastes, paints, and bloodflow in an artery. These fluids have been useful as lubricantin roller bearing [13].
The non-Newtonian behavior of blood has been con-sidered and studied by [14โ17]. Chaturani and Samy [18]investigated the effects of non-Newtonian nature of bloodtreating it as a Cassonโs fluid and pulsatility on flow through astenosed tube. The two-dimensional flow of power law fluidin stenosed arteries has been studied and the effect of powerlaw index on the flow separation and reattachment pointhas been thoroughly investigated [19]. Nadeem et al. [20]and Ismail et al. [21] have investigated blood flow througha tapered artery with a stenosis assuming the blood as anon-Newtonian power law fluid model. They analyzed theinfluences of different parameters (power law index, flowrate, stenosis shape, and stenosis height) in different types oftapered arteries (converging tapered, diverging tapered, andnontaperted artery). Pincombe et al. [22] proposed a fullydeveloped one-dimensional casson flow through a stenosedartery with multiple abnormal segments. They have studiedthe effects of multiple stenoses and poststenotic dilatationon non-Newtonian blood flow in small arteries. Scott Blairand Spanner [23] have suggested that blood obeys Cassonโsmodel only for moderate shear rate flows and that there isno difference between Cassonโs and Herschel-Bulkley plotsover the range where Cassonโs plot is valid (for blood). Fur-thermore, Sacks et al. [24] have experimentally pointed outthat blood shows the behavior characteristic of a combinationof Bingham-plastic and pseudoplastic fluid-Herschel-Bulkleyfluid with the fluid behavior index greater than unity. In viewof the experimental observation [24] and suggestion madein [23], it is pertinent to consider the behavior of blood asa Herschel-Bulkley fluid.
The non-Newtonian aspects of blood flow throughstenosed arteries have been studied by [25] treating bloodas a Herschel-Bulkley fluid. Biswas and Laskar [26] haveinvestigated the steady flow of blood as a Herschel-Bulkleyfluid through a stenosed artery. In these studies, the com-bined effects of the rheology of blood as Herschel-Bulkleyfluid model, stenosis height, dilatation depth, and taperingon the flow of blood have not been investigated. Hence, theaim of the present paper is to analyze the flow of Herschel-Bulkley fluid in a tapered artery with stenosis and dilatation(Figure 2). The expressions for velocity, wall shear stress, andflow resistance have been derived. The effects of parameterssuch as power law index, shear dependent nonlinear vis-cosity, stenotic height, taper angle, dilatation depth, and theyield stress on physiologically important quantities, namely,wall shear stress and flow resistance, are presented graphi-cally.
2. Formulation of the Problem
Consider the steady and axially symmetric flow of an incom-pressible Herschel-Bulkley fluid lying in a tube having length๐ฟ (Figures 1 and 2). We take the cylindrical coordinatesystem (๐, ๐, ๐ง) in such a way that ๐ข, V, and ๐ค are thevelocity components in ๐, ๐, and ๐ง directions, respectively.
r
d1๐ฟ1
l1
Stenosis
d2
๐ฟ2
l2
z
RR0
Dilatation
๐ฝ1 ๐ฝ2๐ผ1 ๐ผ2
Figure 1: Geometry of an axially nonsymmetrical artery with ste-nosis and dilatation.
r
๐ฟ1
๐ฟ2
zR(z)
L
๐ = 0
๐ > 0
๐ < 0
Figure 2: Geometry of the tapered artery with stenosis and dilata-tion for different taper angle.
The equations governing the two-dimensional steady incom-pressible Herschel-Bulkley fluid are
๐(๐ข
๐
๐๐
+ ๐ค
๐
๐๐ง
) ๐ข = โ
๐๐
๐๐
+
1
๐
๐
๐๐
(๐๐๐๐) +
๐๐๐๐ง
๐๐ง
โ
๐๐๐
๐
,
๐ (๐ข
๐
๐๐
+ ๐ค
๐
๐๐ง
)๐ค = โ
๐๐
๐๐ง
+
1
๐
๐
๐๐
(๐๐๐๐ง) +
๐๐๐ง๐ง
๐๐ง
.
(1)
In the above equations the extra stress tensor ๐ forHerschel-Bulkley fluid is defined as
๐ = ๐ ( ฬ๐พ)
๐โ1
ฬ๐พ๐๐+ ๐๐ฆ, (2)
where ๐ is the consistency index, ๐ is the power law index (orfluid behaviour index), ๐
๐ฆis the yield stress, and
ฬ๐พ = โ
1
2
โ
๐
โ
๐
ฬ๐พ๐๐ฬ๐พ๐๐= โ
1
2
๐, (3)
where ๐พ๐๐, ๐, ๐ = 1, 2, 3, is the rate of strain tensor component.
We introduce the nondimensional variables
๐ =
๐
๐ 0
, ๐ง =
๐ง
๐
, ๐ค =
๐ค
๐ข0
, ๐ข =
๐๐ข
๐ข0๐ฟ
,
๐ =
๐
2
0๐
๐ข0๐๐
, Re =๐๐
2
0๐ข0
๐
, ๐๐๐=
๐๐๐๐
๐ข0
๐,
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๐๐๐ง=
๐ 0๐๐๐ง
๐ข0๐
, ๐๐ง๐ง=
๐๐๐ง๐ง
๐ข0๐
, ๐๐๐=
๐๐๐๐
๐ข0๐
,
๐๐ฆ=
๐๐ฆ๐ 0
๐ข0๐
, ๐ (๐ง) =
๐ (๐ง)
๐ 0
,
(4)
where ๐ข0is the average velocity of flow of Newtonian fluid,
๐ = min(๐1, ๐2), ๐ฟ = max(๐ฟ
1, ๐ฟ2),๐ 0is the radius of the normal
artery, Re is the Reynolds number, ๐ (๐ง) is the radius of theabnormal artery, and ๐ is the viscosity of Newtonian fluid. Byassuming
(i) Re ๐ฟ๐1/(๐โ1)
๐
โช 1,
(ii)๐ 0๐1/(๐โ1)
๐
โผ ๐ (1) ,
(5)
the cases of mild stenosis (๐ฟ1/๐ 0โช 1) and mild dilatation
(๐ฟ2/๐ 0โช 1), (1) with the help of (2) and (4) take the form
โ
๐๐
๐๐
= 0,
๐๐
๐๐ง
=
1
๐
๐
๐๐
(๐๐) ,
(6)
where |๐| = ๐๐ฆ+ ๐(โ๐๐ค/๐๐)
๐. The corresponding boundaryconditions are
(i) ๐ is finite at ๐ = 0
(ii) ๐ค = 0 at ๐ = ๐ .(7)
The equations describing the geometry of the wall are
๐ (๐ง) =
{{{{{{{{{{{{
{{{{{{{{{{{{
{
(1 โ ๐๐ง) [1 โ
๐ฟ๐
2๐ 0
โ {1 + cos 2๐๐๐
(๐ง โ ๐ผ๐โ
๐๐
2
)}] ,
๐ผ๐โค ๐ง โค ๐ฝ
๐
1 โ ๐๐ง,
otherwise,
(8)
where ๐ฟ๐is the maximum distance the ๐th abnormal segment
projects into the lumen and is negative for aneurysms andpositive for stenosis, ๐ is the radius of the artery, and ๐ =tan๐, where ๐ is the taper angle. For converging tapering๐ becomes greater than 0, ๐ < 0 indicates the divergingtapering, and ๐ = 0 for the case of nontapered artery, ๐
๐is the
length of the ๐th abnormal segment, ๐ผ๐denotes the distance
from the origin to the commencement of the ๐th abnormalsegment and is given by
๐ผ๐= (
๐
โ
๐=1
(๐๐+ ๐๐)) โ ๐
๐, (9)
๐ฝ๐indicates the distance between the origin of the flow region
and the end of the ๐th abnormal segment and is given by
๐ฝ๐=
๐
โ
๐=1
(๐๐+ ๐๐) , (10)
and ๐๐is the distance separating the start of the ๐th abnormal
segment from the end of the (๐ โ 1)th or from the start of thesegment if ๐ = 1 [22].
3. Solution of the Problem
The exact solution for velocity field satisfying the boundaryconditions can be written as
๐ค = (
๐
๐ + 1
)(
๐ ๐+1
๐(๐ง)
2๐
)
1/๐
โ [{1 โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(๐+1)/๐
โ {
๐
๐
โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(๐+1)/๐
] ,
(11)
where ๐(๐ง) = โ๐๐/๐๐ง.The plug core velocity is given by
๐ค๐= (
๐
๐ + 1
)(
๐ ๐+1
๐(๐ง)
2๐
)
1/๐
[{1 โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(๐+1)/๐
] , (12)
where ๐ ๐is the radius of the plug core region and ๐
๐=
2๐๐ฆ/๐(๐ง).Multiplying (11) by ๐ and integrating with respect to ๐, the
stream function ๐ (๐ค = (1/๐)(๐๐/๐๐), ๐ข = (โ1/๐)(๐๐/๐๐ง))is obtained as
๐ = (
๐
๐ + 1
)(
๐ ๐+1
๐(๐ง)
2๐
)
1/๐
โ [{1 โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(๐+1)/๐
๐2
2
โ
๐๐๐
2๐ + 1
{
๐
๐
โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(2๐+1)/๐
+
๐ 2
๐2
(2๐ + 1) (3๐ + 1)
{
๐
๐
โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(3๐+1)/๐
] .
(13)
The volumetric flow rate is defined as
๐ = 2โซ
๐
0
๐๐ข (๐) ๐๐. (14)
The total flow rate ๐ is defined as
๐ = 2โซ
๐ ๐
0
๐๐ข๐๐๐ + 2โซ
๐
๐ ๐
๐๐ข (๐) ๐๐. (15)
Using (11), (12), and (15), we get
๐ = (
๐๐ 2
3๐ + 1
)(
๐ ๐+1
๐(๐ง)
2๐
)
1/๐
{1 โ
๐ ๐
๐
}
(๐+1)/๐
โ [1 +
4๐
2๐ + 1
๐ ๐
2๐
+
8๐2
(2๐ + 1) (๐ + 1)
๐ 2
๐
4๐ 2] .
(16)
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Table 1: A comparison between numerical value of pressure gradient and approximate value of pressure gradient at the midpoint of stenoticregion for different values of yield stress taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.2, ๐ = 0.01, and ๐ฟ
1= 0.2.
๐๐ฆ
0.05 0.1 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.6 2 2.4
Numerical value of ๐(๐ง) 17.9423 18.1099 19.1145 20.4511 21.7841 23.1127 24.4368 25.7559Analytical value of ๐(๐ง) 17.9424 18.1104 19.124 20.4895 21.8712 23.2692 24.6834 26.1137
Table 2: A comparison between numerical value of pressure gradient and approximate value of pressure gradient at themidpoint of dilatationregion for different values of yield stress taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.2, ๐ = 0.01, and ๐ฟ
2= โ0.2.
๐๐ฆ
0.05 0.1 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.6 2 2.4
Numerical value of ๐(๐ง) 5.0954 5.2106 5.9001 6.8133 7.7185 8.6152 9.5037 10.3845Analytical value of ๐(๐ง) 5.0956 5.2116 5.9163 6.8799 7.8709 8.8892 9.9349 11.008
The shear stress ๐ at the wall of the tapered arterial stenosiswith dilatation (wall shear stress ๐
๐ค) is defined as
๐๐ค=
๐
2
๐ (๐ง) . (17)
The flow resistance ๐ is defined as
๐ = โซ
๐ง
0
๐ (๐ง)
๐
๐๐ง, (18)
where ๐ง is any point of cross section of nonuniform tube alongthe axial direction.
Case 1. For any value of yield stress ๐๐ฆ, (16) can be rewritten
as
(
3๐ + 1
๐๐ 2)๐๐ฅ3
= (
(๐ ๐ฅ โ 2๐๐ฆ)
๐+1
2๐
)
1/๐
โ [๐ฅ2
+
4๐
2๐ + 1
๐๐ฆ๐ฅ
๐
+
8๐2
(2๐ + 1) (๐ + 1)
๐2
๐ฆ
๐ 2] ,
(19)
where ๐ฅ = โ๐๐/๐๐ง. For ๐ = 1.0, one can numericallycompute the value of ๐ฅ (pressure gradient) from (19) fordifferent values of the parameters. Equation (19) has beennumerically solved for ๐ฅ using Newton-Raphson method.
Case 2. For small value of yield stress ๐๐ฆ/๐๐คโช 1, the expres-
sion for pressure gradient can be obtained as
โ
๐๐
๐๐ง
= {
21/๐
๐1/๐
(3๐ + 1)๐
๐๐ (3๐+1)/๐
}
๐
+
2 (3๐ + 1)
2๐ + 1
๐๐ฆ
๐
+ (
42๐3
+ 56๐2
+ 26๐ + 4
(2๐ + 1)2
(๐ + 1)
)
๐2
๐ฆ๐๐
๐ 3๐โ1
2๐ (3๐ + 1)๐
๐๐.
(20)
Using (17) and (20), the wall shear stress is obtained as
๐๐ค= {
๐1/๐
(3๐ + 1)๐
๐๐ 3
}
๐
+ (
3๐ + 1
2๐ + 1
) ๐๐ฆ
+ (
42๐3
+ 56๐2
+ 26๐ + 4
(2๐ + 1)2
(๐ + 1)
)
๐2
๐ฆ๐๐
๐ 3๐
4๐ (3๐ + 1)๐
๐๐.
(21)
Substituting (20) into (18), the analytical expression for flowresistance is obtained as
๐ = ๐โซ
๐ฟ
0
1
๐ 3๐+1๐๐ง + ๐โซ
๐ฟ
0
1
๐
๐๐ง + ๐โซ
๐ฟ
0
๐ 3๐โ1
๐๐ง, (22)
where
๐ =
1
๐๐โ1{
21/๐
๐1/๐
(3๐ + 1)
๐
}
๐
,
๐ =
2 (3๐ + 1) ๐๐ฆ
(2๐ + 1)๐
,
๐ = 2(
42๐3
+ 56๐2
+ 26๐ + 4
(2๐ + 1)2
(๐ + 1)
)
๐2
๐ฆ๐๐
2๐ (3๐ + 1)๐
๐๐+1.
(23)
Considering the number of abnormal segments within anarterial segment as shown in Figure 1, we define ๐ผ
๐as the
starting point and ๐ฝ๐as the ending point of each portion.
Taking this into account (22) can be rewritten as
๐ = ๐[โซ
๐ผ1
0
๐๐ง +
๐
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ฝ๐
๐ผ๐
๐ โ(3๐+1)
๐๐ง +
๐โ1
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ผ๐+1
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง + โซ
๐ฟ
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง]
+ ๐[โซ
๐ผ1
0
๐๐ง +
๐
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ฝ๐
๐ผ๐
๐ โ1
๐๐ง +
๐โ1
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ผ๐+1
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง + โซ
๐ฟ
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง]
+ ๐ [โซ
๐ผ1
0
๐๐ง +
๐
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ฝ๐
๐ผ๐
๐ 3๐โ1
๐๐ง +
๐โ1
โ
๐=1
โซ
๐ผ๐+1
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง + โซ
๐ฟ
๐ฝ๐
๐๐ง] .
(24)
4. Discussion
A comparison between numerical values and analyticalvalues of pressure gradient at the midpoint of stenotic regionshows that, up to ๐
๐ฆ= 2.4, the maximum error is less than
1.4% and for dilatation region the maximum error is less than6%. This is illustrated in Tables 1 and 2. This implies that theanalytical expression for pressure gradient works well for thevalues of yield stress till 2.4.
A comparative study of velocity profiles for fluids suchas Newtonian, power law, Bingham-plastic, and Herschel-Bulkley fluids is represented graphically in Figure 3. From
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 10
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
NewtonianPower lawBingham-plastic
Herschel-bulkleyExperimental
w/wmax
r
Figure 3: Comparison of velocity profiles for various fluids withexperimental results.
Figure 3, it is observed that the velocity of Herschel-Bulkleyfluid agrees with experimental values compared to that of theother fluids.
The variation of wall shear stress (WSS) with respectto axial distance for the case of a converging tapered,not tapered, and diverging tapered arterial stenosis withdilatation is displayed in Figures 4โ8. WSSs of fluids suchas Newtonian, power law, Bingham-plastic, and Herschel-Bulkley fluids are compared in Figure 4. It is important tonote thatWSS increases in the upstreamof the stenotic region(๐ง = 2 to 2.5), reaches maximum at the midpoint (๐ง = 2.5),and decreases in the downstream of region (๐ง = 2.5 to 3),while, in the dilatation region,WSS decreases as ๐ง varies from4 to 4.5, reaches minimum at the midpoint (๐ง = 4.5), andincreases in the region (๐ง = 4.5 to 5). In the case of stenosis,increase is more for converging tapered artery (๐ = 0.01) ascompared to the case of not tapered (๐ = 0) and divergingtapered (๐ = โ0.01) artery. It is observed from the view ofvariation of WSS around the midpoint of stenotic region thatthe effect of the presence of stenosis is higher on the rheologyof blood as Bingham fluid model in comparison with therheology of blood as Newtonian, Hershel-Bulkley, and powerlaw fluid models, respectively. It is important to observe fromFigure 5 that the power law index (๐) plays a significant role instenotic region (๐ง = 2 to 3) since the percentage of variationin WSS is higher for stenosis as compared to the case ofdilatation.
Axial variation of WSS with respect to yield stress inthe case of converging tapered, not tapered, and diverg-ing tapered arterial stenosis with dilatation is displayed inFigure 7. Increase in yield stress causes wall shear stress to
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3
4
5
6
7
8
9
z
๐ wNewtonian fluidPower law fluidBingham-plastic fluidHerschel-Bulkley fluid
๐ = โ0.01
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0
Figure 4: Axial variation of wall shear stress for Newtonian, powerlaw, Bingham-plastic, and Herschel-Bulkley fluids with differentvalues of ๐.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 52
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
z
๐ w
n = 1.2
n = 1
n = 0.8
n = 0.6
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
Figure 5: Axial variation of wall shear stress (๐๐ค) for different values
of power law index (๐) taking ๐ = 1.4, ๐ฟ = 0.2, and ๐๐ฆ= 0.1.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
z
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
k = 1.4
k = 1.2
k = 1
k = 0.8
๐ w
Figure 6: Axial variation of wall shear stress (๐๐ค) for different values
of consistency index (๐) taking ๐ = 0.8 and ๐๐ฆ= 0.1.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 52
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
z
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
๐ w
๐y = 0.2
๐y = 0.1
๐y = 0
Figure 7: Variation of wall shear stress (๐๐ค) with respect to axial
distance for different values of ๐๐ฆtaking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.4, and ๐ฟ = 0.2.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 52
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
z
๐ฟ = 0.2๐ฟ = 0.1๐ฟ = 0
๐ w
๐ = 0.01
๐ = 0
๐ = โ0.01
Figure 8: Axial variation of wall shear stress (๐๐ค) for different values
of ๐ฟ by taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.4, and ๐๐ฆ= 0.1.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 51
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
z
๐ = 0.01
๐ = 0
๐ = โ0.01
Newtonian fluid
Power law fluidBingham-plastic fluid
Herschel-Bulkley fluid
๐
Figure 9: Variation of flow resistance (๐) for various fluids withrespect to axial distance taking ๐ฟ = 0.2.
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2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 51
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
5.5
6
z
n = 1.2
n = 1
n = 0.8
n = 0.6
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
๐
Figure 10: Axial variation of flow resistance (๐) for different valuesof ๐ taking ๐ = 1.2, ๐
๐ฆ= 0.1, and ๐ฟ = 0.2.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 51
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
z
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
k = 1.4
k = 1.2
k = 1.0
k = 0.8
๐
Figure 11: Axial variation of flow resistance (๐) for different valuesof ๐ taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐
๐ฆ= 0.1, and ๐ฟ = 0.2.
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
2.2
2.4
2.6
2.8
3
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5z
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
๐
๐y = 0
๐y = 0.1
๐y = 0.2
Figure 12: Axial variation of flow resistance (๐) for different valuesof yield stress (๐
๐ฆ) taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.2, and ๐ฟ = 0.2.
2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5z
๐ = 0.01๐ = 0๐ = โ0.01
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
2.2
2.4
2.6
2.8
๐ ๐ฟ = 0
๐ฟ = 0.1
๐ฟ = 0.2
Figure 13: Variation of flow resistance (๐) with respect to axialdistance for different values of ๐ฟ taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.2, and ๐
๐ฆ= 0.1.
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2 2.5 3
0
0.5
1
โ0.5
โ1
r/R
z
(a)
0
0.5
1
โ0.5
โ1
r/R
2 2.5 3z
(b)
r/R
2 2.5 3z
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
(c)
Figure 14: Stream lines for (a) Newtonian fluid, (b) Bingham-plastic fluid (๐๐ฆ= 0.1), and (c) Bingham-plastic fluid (๐
๐ฆ= 0.4) taking ๐ฟ
1= 0.2
and ๐ = 0.01 in the stenotic region.
0
0.5
1
โ0.5
โ1
r/R
2 2.5 3z
(a)
0
0.5
1
โ0.5
โ1
r/R
2 2.5 3z
(b)
0
0.5
1
โ0.5
โ1
r/R
2 2.5 3z
(c)
Figure 15: Stream lines for (a) power law fluid, (b) Herschel-Bulkley fluid (๐๐ฆ= 0.1), and (c) Herschel-Bulkley fluid (๐
๐ฆ= 0.4) taking ๐ฟ
1= 0.2
and ๐ = 0.01 in the stenotic region.
increase and the variation is more in the stenotic region thanin the dilatation region. The effect of stenotic height on WSShas been investigated in Figure 8.As stenotic height increases,WSS increases in the stenotic region while it decreases in thedilatation region. When there is no stenosis, WSS increaseslinearly with respect to the axial distance. It is observed that
the stenotic height plays a predominant role in increasing theWSS. The variation is more in the case of converging taperedthan not tapered and diverging tapered arteries.
Figures 9โ13 are prepared to see the variation of resis-tance to flow with respect to the axial distance in the caseof converging tapered, not tapered, and diverging tapered
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2 2.5 3
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
z
r/R
(a)
0
2 2.5 3
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
zr/R
(b)
Figure 16: Stream lines for different values of ๐: (a) ๐ = 1 and (b) ๐ = 1.2 taking ๐ฟ1= 0.2, ๐ = 0.01, ๐ = 0.8, ๐ = 1.4, and ๐
๐ฆ= 0.1 in the
stenotic region.
4 4.5 5
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
z
r/R
(a)
4 4.5 5
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
z
r/R
(b)
Figure 17: Stream lines for (a) Newtonian fluid and (b) Bingham-plastic fluid taking ๐ฟ2= โ0.2 and ๐ = 0.01 in the dilatation region.
arterial stenosis with dilatation. A comparative study offlow resistance for Newtonian, power law, Bingham-plastic,and Herschel-Bulkley fluids is depicted in Figure 9. Flowresistance increases significantly in the stenotic region (๐ง =2 to 3): the increase is more for Herschel-Bulkley fluidand comparatively less for Newtonian fluid. Flow resistancedecreases with the axial distance in the dilatation region.
The variation of flow resistance for power law and Bingham-plastic is lesser when compared with Herschel-Bulkley andgreater when compared with Newtonian fluid. Figures 10and 11 depict that flow resistance increases as ๐ and ๐increases. Increase in power law index causes flow resistanceto increase significantly as compared to the consistencyindex (๐). The effect of yield stress on flow resistance having
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4 4.5 5
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
z
r/R
(a)
4 4.5 5z
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
r/R
(b)
Figure 18: Stream lines for (a) power law fluid and (b) Herschel-Bulkley fluid taking ๐ฟ2= โ0.2 and ๐ = 0.01 in the dilatation region.
4 4.5 5
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
z
r/R
(a)
4 4.5 5z
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
โ0.2
โ0.4
โ0.6
โ0.8
โ1
r/R
(b)
Figure 19: Stream lines for different values of ๐: (a) ๐ = 1 and (b) ๐ = 1.2 taking ๐ = 0.8, ๐๐ฆ= 0.1, ๐ฟ
2= โ0.2, and ๐ = 0.01 in the dilatation
region.
other parameters fixed has been studied from Figure 12.Flow resistance increases as yield stress increases and thevariation caused by yield stress is less compared to otherparameters. Figure 13 shows that the flow resistance increaseswith stenotic height and its increase is more in the case ofconverging tapered artery.
The effects of consistency index (๐), power law index (๐),and yield stress (๐
๐ฆ) on the stream line pattern have been
examined and illustrated in Figures 14โ19. In the case oftapered stenosed tube (Figures 14โ16), the non-Newtonianbehaviour of blood plays a predominant role in the formationof trapping bolus. Increase in ๐ or ๐ does not cause a
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significant change in the stream line pattern. Increase inyield stress leads to a significant increase in the size oftrapping bolus. It is observed that the parameters ๐ and ๐are weak parameters in the sense that these parameters bringa small change in the stream line pattern in comparisonwith the yield stress. Figures 14โ19 reveal that, in the caseof a tapered stenosed tube, the stream line pattern follows aconvex pattern when we move from ๐/๐ = 0 to ๐/๐ = 1 andit follows a concave pattern when we move from ๐/๐ = 0to ๐/๐ = โ1. Further, it is of opposite behaviour in the caseof a tapered dilatation tube. In the case of dilatation, thevariation in the stream line pattern corresponding to changein parameters is less due to lower pressure gradient. This hasbeen illustrated in Figures 17โ19.
5. Conclusion
This work presents a model of flow of an incompressibleHerschel-Bulkley fluid through a tapered artery with stenosisand dilatation. In this paper, we conclude the following.
(i) Expressions for velocity profile, wall shear stress, andflow resistance are derived.
(ii) A comparison between numerical values and ana-lytical values of pressure gradient at the midpointof stenotic region shows that, up to ๐
๐ฆ= 2.4, the
maximum error is less than 1.4% and, for dilatationregion, the maximum error is less than 6%. Thisimplies that the analytical expression for pressuregradient works well for the values of yield stress till2.4.
(iii) Effects of parameters such as power law index, con-sistency index, yield stress, stenotic height, dilatationdepth, and taper angle on the above mentionedphysiologically important quantities are studied.
(iv) For given value of power law index (๐), Herschel-Bulkley fluid has greater wall shear stress than thepower law fluid.
(v) It is important to note that increase in yield stressleads to increase in wall shear stress and resistance toflow.
(vi) Flow resistance increases significantly as the stenoticheight increases for given ๐, ๐.
(vii) It is observed that the parameters ๐ and ๐ are weakparameters in the sense that these parameters bring asmall change in the stream line pattern in comparisonwith the yield stress and the stream line pattern fortapered dilatation tube is of opposite behaviour ascompared to tapered stenosed tube.
(viii) From the present work, results for power law (taking๐๐ฆ= 0), Bingham-plastic (taking ๐ = 1), and
Newtonian fluids (taking ๐ = 1 and ๐๐ฆ= 0) can be
obtained.(ix) Results illustrated through graphs show the effects of
multiple diseased portions of artery in close proxim-ity to each other (a poststenotic dilatation) on the
increase of flow resistance causing the reduction ofblood flow.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper.
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