Blood Flow Behaviour in a Straight Vein under the Influence of a Magnetic Field

Abstract

A mathematical model is developed to study on the influence of magnetic field on the flow of biofluids. This paper describes the laminar, viscous incompressible flow, which is a fully developed flow of a conducting biomagnetic fluid in a rectangular duct with square cross-section, is numerically studied under the influence of magnetic field. Therefore, numerical simulation was carried out by using the Spectral method as a main numerical technique and Newton-Raphson method, Collocation Method and Chebyshev polynomial are considered as secondary tools. The results revealed that the magnetic field separates red blood cells from the whole blood with collapsing in the central line. This results will be applicable in the potential applications of medical science such as the development of magnetic devices for cell separation, targeted transport of drugs using magnetic particles as drug carriers, magnetic wound or cancer tumour treatment causing magnetic hyperthermia, reduction of bleeding during some surgeries.

Keywords:

• Induced magnetic field
• biofluid
• blood flow
• straight vein
• spectral method

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