Unsteady flow of blood through narrow blood vessels - a mathematical analysis (Q1203681)

We study an unsteady flow of blood in a uniform arteriole segment under various boundary conditions at the wall. The blood vessel is modelled as an initially stressed orthotropic elastic tube filled with a viscous incompressible fluid representing blood which is treated here as a polar fluid. As for the equations governing the motion of the arteriole wall, we have taken a pair of equations by using suitable constitutive relations and the principle of superimposition of a small additional deformation on a state of known finite deformation.