Pulsatile Flow of Two-Fluid Nonlinear Models for Blood Flow through Catheterized Arteries: A Comparative Study

Table 3

Range of increase in the longitudinal impedance for different types of catheters for two-fluid H-B model and two-fluid Casson model with $A=\alpha ={\alpha }_H={\alpha }_C=0.5\text{,}$$R_1=0.95\text{,}$$t=45$^°, and $\theta =0.1$.

Type of catheter	Range of catheter	Two-fluid H-B	Two-fluid
	size $d_i/d_0$	model with $n=0.95$	Casson model
Guidewire	0.08–0.18	1.143–1.303	1.159–1.375
Infusion	0.14–0.33	1.239–1.569	1.264–1.768
Angioplasty catheter	0.3–0.6	1.512–2.314	1.641–3.558