Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Subject "blood"
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The modeling of blood rheology in small vessels
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Blood is a dense suspension of flexible red blood cells. In response to a background flow, these cells distribute themselves non-uniformly throughout the vessel. As a result, material properties that are well defined ... -
A Ray Optics Framework for the Computation of The Sieve Effect Factor for Blood
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Light may traverse a turbid material, such as blood, without encountering any of its pigment particles, a phenomenon known as sieve effect. This phenomenon may result in a decrease in the amount of light absorbed by the ...