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. 2021 Dec 13;11(1):23835.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-03426-1.

Study of Non-Newtonian biomagnetic blood flow in a stenosed bifurcated artery having elastic walls

Hasan Shahzad  1 , Xinhua Wang  2 , Ioannis Sarris  3 , Kaleem Iqbal  4 , Muhammad Bilal Hafeez  5 , Marek Krawczuk  5
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Study of Non-Newtonian biomagnetic blood flow in a stenosed bifurcated artery having elastic walls

Hasan Shahzad et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

Fluid structure interaction (FSI) gained attention of researchers and scientist due to its applications in science fields like biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering etc. One of the major application in FSI is to study elastic wall behavior of stenotic arteries. In this paper we discussed an incompressible Non-Newtonian blood flow analysis in an elastic bifurcated artery. A magnetic field is applied along [Formula: see text] direction. For coupling of the problem an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation is used by two-way fluid structure interaction. To discretize the problem, we employed [Formula: see text] finite element technique to approximate the velocity, displacement and pressure and then linearized system of equations is solved using Newton iteration method. Analysis is carried out for power law index, Reynolds number and Hartmann number. Hemodynamic effects on elastic walls, stenotic artery and bifurcated region are evaluated by using velocity profile, pressure and loads on the walls. Study shows there is significant increase in wall shear stresses with an increase in Power law index and Hartmann number. While as expected increase in Reynolds number decreases the wall shear stresses. Also load on the upper wall is calculated against Hartmann number for different values of power law index. Results show load increases as the Hartmann number and power law index increases. From hemodynamic point of view, the load on the walls is minimum for shear thinning case but when power law index increased i.e. for shear thickening case load on the walls increased.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

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schematic diagram of the problem (left) and coarse mesh (right).
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Velocity profile at Re 300 for variation of n.
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Velocity profile for various n at Re 500.
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Velocity profile for various n at Re = 700.
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velocity profile for diffent Ha and n.
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Boundary loads for the variation of n.
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Boundary loads for the variation of Re.
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loads on the walls versus Ha.
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