Numerical simulation of unsteady blood based Carreau nanofluid flow in an inclined porous saturated artery having overlapping stenosis with electro-osmosis

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the computational modeling of the unsteady non-Newtonian electro-magnetohydrodynamic flow of nano-blood through the inclined and tapered saturated porous artery with overlapping stenosis. The Carreau fluid model is adopted to simulate the non-Newtonian behavior of the blood. This study also uses a modified form of Darcy’s law applied to the Carreau model. Blood is doped with a suspension of homogeneous biocompatible nanoparticles of different shapes. In addition, a combination of a magnetic field and an electric field has also been taken into account. The significance of this work rests in the ability to enhance comprehension of the complicated behavior of hemodynamic flow when exposed to external fields and porous media with the addition of nanoparticles, which has substantial implications for the regulation and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The finite-difference method is used to obtain the solution of the resulting equations. The simulations are applicable to targeted magnetic therapy for stenotic artery disease and the delivery of nanomedicines.

Keywords:

• Blood flow
• EMHD
• nanofluid
• porous medium
• stenosis artery
• non-Newtonian fluid

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