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Open Access e-Journal Cardiometry - No.14 May 2019

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REPORT Submitted: 29.6.2018; Accepted: 13.8.2018; Published online: 21.11.2018

Motion of blood formed elements

in a pulsatile hemodynamic flow

Vladimir I. Timoshenko 1 , Nikolay N. Chernov 1*

1

Southern Federal University

Russia, 347900, Taganrog, Shevchenko st. 2

*

Corresponding author:

phone: +7 (928) 908-11-77, e-mail: nnchernov@sfedu.ru

Abstract

This paper offers some results obtained in our studies on the

motion of individual formed elements in blood with due regard

of a pulsatile flow of the plasma in the blood vessels. An analysis

of the process of the motion of the blood particles having different

shapes in a pressure wave variable field of the pressure wave

has been completed herein.

Keywords

Blood formed elements, Motion, Pressure wave variable field,

Human circulatory system, Physical models of motion of formed

elements

Imprint

Vladimir I. Timoshenko, Nikolay N. Chernov. Motion of blood

formed elements in a pulsatile hemodynamic flow. Cardiometry;

Issue 13; November 2018; p.22-26; DOI: 10.12710/cardiometry.2018.13.2226;

Available from: http://www.cardiometry.net/

issues/no13-november-2018/pulsatile-hemodynamic-flow

Introduction

Circulating blood represents a suspension comprised

of the plasma as the blood liquid component

and formed elements suspended therein, which are as

follows: erythrocytes, leukocytes and thrombocytes,

the sizes of which range up to 10 micrometers. Hemodynamic

processes, which occur in different phases

within a cardiac cycle, determine the respective blood

flow volumes, which are considered to be one of the

major criteria for an assessment of the cardiovascular

system performance. Electrical potential traced as

an electrocardiogram controls the blood flow in the

blood vessels in order to provide all required parameters

of hemodynamics. From an analysis of an electrocardiogram,

which can be interpreted as a sequence of

simple sinusoidal signals [1], it may be deduced that

the blood flow is managed under smoothly changing

energetic processes in each cardiac cycle, which show

their maxima and minima, from their growing till

their decaying. An actual frequency of these processes

is dictated by the heart rate and cannot exceed 5 Hz

that refers to 300 heart beats per minute. A knowledge

of biophysics processes of blood circulating flows,

considering motion of the formed elements in a pulsatile

blood flow, is of crucial importance.

A set of the respective blood volumes and associated

dynamic fluctuations thereof are considered to

be a valuable diagnostics parameter for assessing of

hemodynamic processes is. A simulation of the hemodynamic

process on the basis of empirical equations

by G.M.Poyedintsev – O.K.Voronova [2] according

to their concept of elevated fluidity regime,

existing in the circulatory system, has made it possible

to bring an analysis of volumetric parameters of a

cardiovascular cycle to a new higher level [3]. However

it should be noted that many factors of biophysics,

responsible for the motion of blood as a suspension,

comprising the liquid plasma and the formed

elements suspended therein, are still not clearly understood.

There is still a poor understanding of how

the blood laminar flow process is organized: erythrocytes,

leukocytes and thrombocytes, circulating in

blood vessels, are non-spherical in their shape. So, it

is supposed that the blood elevated fluidity phenomenon,

determined by pulsations by the blood vessel

walls, should be accompanied by oscillations of the

blood formed elements. Considering the above, an

attempt is made in our paper to analyze the process

of the motion of the blood elements in a variable field

of a pressure wave.

Materials and methods

The construction of our fresh theory of the motion

of the blood formed elements is based on a solution of

a number of physics-related problems. Following this

way, it should be stressed that the key problem within

the context is an investigation of the behavior of individual

particles and the system of these smallest particles

in a variable field of pressure. The solution of this

problem allows discovering applicable laws and regularities

of the major physical mechanism of the laminar

flow of the elements in a variable pressure field.

The formed elements, which are suspended in the liquid

medium, under the action of the oscillations, are

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