Effect of red cells on heat-conduction in blood

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Říha, Pavel

Affiliations: Institute of Hydrodynamics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 12 Prague, Czechoslovakia

Abstract: The effect of red cells on the heat-conduction in blood is studied by describing the thermomechanical constitution of blood using the micro continuum theory, Solutions to the system of governing equations are given for the case of the steady heat-conduction in blood trapped between two heated parallel plates. The influence of hematocrit on the obtained thermodynamic fields and on the theoretical expression for the thermal conductivity of blood is examined. The predicted thermal conductivity values are found to agree closely with the experimental data.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1976-13305

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 185-189, 1976