Effects of periodic accelerations on blood flow in arteries

This paper discusses the flow of blood in large artries under the influence of linear periodic acceleration. The governing equations and boundary conditions are established and analytical solutions for the velocity, fluid acceleration, bulk flow and shear stress are obtained. The results for these physical quantitites are computed for the case of an artery the size of a normal human aorta. It is found that the flow field variables are directly proportional to the external accelerating force. The behaviour of the velocity profile along the radial distance at different stages of times at fixed applied acceleration is also shown.