Effect of blood rheology on hematocrit distribution in pulmonary sheet flow

Issue title: Special Issue for the Third International Congress of Biorheology. Dedicated to Maurice Joly

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yen, R.T.

Affiliations: Department of AMES - Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093

Note: [] Accepted by: Editor G.V.F. Seaman

Abstract: Using a physical model of convenient macroscopic scale with blood simulated by gelatin pellets in a silicone fluid, the red cell distribution in the pulmonary alveoli was studied. Information pertaining to the flow characteristics of blood at the bifurcation lines of the inter alveolar septa was obtained. The vascular space in each interalveolar septa is said to be a sheet. The results show that when a sheet branches into two daughter sheets, the hematocrits in the daughter sheets depend on the difference of velocity of flow in these branches.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1978-155-625

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 15, no. 5-6, pp. 523-536, 1978