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Microcirculation

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Biomechanics

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In the preceding chapters we studied the flow of blood in large blood vessels in which the main feature is a balance between the pressure forces, inertia forces, and forces of tissue and muscle. Only in the boundary layer are the viscous friction forces important. The boundary layer thickness grows with increasing distance from the entry section, and in a long tube the boundary layer on the wall eventually becomes so thick as to fill the entire tube. However, arteries divide and divide again. The vessel diameter decreases with each division, and soon the Reynolds and Womersley numbers become quite small, the entry length becomes only a small multiple of the vessel diameter, and the flow becomes fully developed even in relatively short vessels, and the analysis given in Section 3.2 becomes applicable.

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