Abstract
This is the pre-print version of a paper submitted to Technische Mechanik (ISSN 0232-3869)
List of abbreviations in tables 1 and 2 resp.
- dh/dc
- = ratio of diameters in healthy (h) and cancer infected (c) vessels,
- ζ
- =pressure drop coefficient acc. to /28/
- ε
- =hematocrit
- ρ͂
- =mean blood density
- XLM
- = Lockhart-Martinell (LM) factor
- Φtt
- = corrected LM factor for turbulent flow in both phases
- Φll
- = corrected LM factor for laminar flow in both phases
- d
- = diameter of blood vessels
- v□h
- = mean blood flow velocity in healthy vessels
- γ̇h
- = shear rate in healthy vessels
- ηrep,h
- = representative viscosity in healthy vessels
- Reh
- = Reynolds number in healthy vessels
- λh
- = friction factor in healthy vessels
- τw,h
- = wall shear stress in healthy vessels
- v□c
- = mean blood flow velocity in cancer infected vessels
- l
- = tube length
- γ̇c
- = shear rate in cancer infected vessels
- ηrep,c
- = representative viscosity in cancer infected vessels
- Φ
- = corrected acc. to (17) Lockhart-Martinelli factor
- λt / λl
- = attenuation factor = ratio of friction factors for turbulent (t) and laminar (l) flows resp.
Copyright
The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.