The modeling of blood rheology in small vessels
Blood is a dense suspension of flexible red blood cells. In response to a background flow, these cells distribute themselves non-uniformly throughout the vessel. As a result, material properties that are well defined in homogeneous fluids, such as viscosity, are no longer so, and depend upon the...
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University of Waterloo
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1149 |