Hematocrit, viscosity and velocity distributions of aggregating and non-aggregating blood in a bifurcating microchannel

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 259-273

  Sherwood, Joseph M ^a   Kaliviotis, Efstathios ^b   Dusting, Jonathan ^b   Balabani, Stavroula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Hematocrit distribution; PIV; Velocity profiles; Viscosity profiles

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MICROCHANNELS; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

HEMATOCRIT DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PIV; RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION; RELATIVE VISCOSITY; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOSITY INFLUENCE;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; VISCOSITY;

BLOOD; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84897556847     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-012-0449-9     Document Type: Article

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