This paper investigates the effect of couple stresses on the propagation of nonlinear pulse wave from the heart through a tapered coronary artery. Analysis is done with the assumption that… Click to show full abstract
This paper investigates the effect of couple stresses on the propagation of nonlinear pulse wave from the heart through a tapered coronary artery. Analysis is done with the assumption that blood is a non-homogeneous fluid. Hence, the presence of the erythrocytes suggests the Stokes couple stress constitutive model. The equation governing the fluid flow are modeled, non-dimensionalized and solved by using reductive perturbation method.
               
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