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Viscosity of Newtonian and Carreau-Yasuda Constitutive Blood Models.

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posted on 2015-04-21, 03:26 authored by Jared C. Weddell, JaeHyuk Kwack, P. I. Imoukhuede, Arif Masud

The Carreau-Yasuda model of blood shows the viscosity changing as a function of the shear-rate. The Newtonian model has constant viscosity at all shear-rates.

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