Physics of single and two phase flows in bifurcating vessels

Abstract

Bifurcating vessels are ubiquitous in cardiovascular and pulmonary systems microfluidics and several biomedical applications The flow is distributed in the daughter vessels and the streamlines become curved at the bifurcations As a result the flow becomes complex at the bifurcations In this work the steady and pulsatile flow of blood assuming it to be a Newtonian fluid is modeled in idealized symmetric and asymmetric bifurcations The effect of different geometric parameters such as bi...