Rheological Behavior of Physiological Pulsatile Flow through a Model Arterial Stenosis with Moving Wall

Table 1

Non-Newtonian models with given molecular viscosity of blood.

Model	Effective viscosity
Newtonian	Pa·s
Carreau Carreau [25]
	Pa·s
	Cross Cross [27]
		Pa·s, at a very low shear rate
s^−1
Modified Casson   González and Moraga [27]
	Pa·s
	s^−1
	s^−1
Quemada Quemada [28]
	for haematocrit
	Pa·s
	s^−1
	and

In non-Newtonian models, viscosity is a function of , which is the global shear rate.