Effect of spatial variations in shear on diffusion at the wall of an arterial branch

The effect of spatially varying shear on transport to the wall of a two-dimensional branch was examined, using oxygen as the test solute and the results of earlier fluid mechanical calculations to provide the shear profiles in a region characterizing the aortic bifurcation. The numerical technique employed allowed both blood-phase and mural resistances to solute uptake to be treated simultaneously and self-consistently

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Author Morton Friedman Biomedical Engineering