A new approach to model confined suspensions flows in complex networks: Application to blood flow

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-194

  Guibert, R ^a,b,c   Fonta, C ^c   Plouraboue F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b IMFT   (France)

^c Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Apparent viscosity; Blood rheology; Confined suspensions; F hr us Lindquist effect; Network models; Phase separation

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; GEOMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY;

APPARENT VISCOSITY; BLOOD FLOW DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; FREE-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; MODELING OF BLOOD FLOW; NETWORK MODELS; TOPOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

BIFURCATION; BLOOD; FLOW MODELING; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77951499281     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9492-0     Document Type: Article

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