Metallic nanoparticles influence on blood flow through a stenotic artery

Abstract

A model of magnetohydrodynamic blood flow through an artery with a mild stenosis under the influence of metallic nanoparticles is presented. The coupled nonlinear partial differential equations governing the problem are simplified by subject to reasonable modeling and stenosis approximations to obtain analytic expressions for the flow characteristics. The expressions for velocity, temperature, stream function, flow resistance and wall shear stress distribution are obtained in the present analysis. Effects of some emerging physical parameters on arterial blood flow characteristics are shown graphically and discussed briefly under the influence of metallic nano particles (nanofluid model). Finally, stream line patterns illustrating size and number of trapping boluses are introduced and discussed for various imbedded parameters.