The Polar Fluid Model for Blood Flow through a Tapered Artery with Overlapping Stenosis: Effects of Catheter and Velocity Slip

Table 2

Validation with experimental and theoretical results.

Ratio of the diameter of the catheter to that of the vessel (in case of Back [4])/ratio of the radius of the catheter to that of the annular region (in the present study and as done by [14])	Impedance as obtained by Back [4] with 33% sugar-water solution with kinematic viscosity  cm^2 s^−1	Impedance in case of symmetric stenosis as in [14] with , , at	Impedance in the present work with , , , at
0.001	1.17	37.1729	42.4983
0.01	1.28	41.0176	47.0415
0.1	1.74	60.4443	70.6899
0.2	2.35	92.4108	111.902
0.3	3.29	160.369	209.679
0.4	4.89	391.445	743.398