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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