Waves and prestresses in thin elastic tubes carrying fluid flow (Q1891898)

It is known that if a segment of artery is excised from the arterial system, then it shrinks. This means that prestresses and/or residual stresses exist in the arteries. Earlier the authors found that if the prestresses in a single uniform elastic tube carrying inviscid fluid flow reach certain states in the prestress space, then one wave (the slow wave) will disappear, and it becomes standing wave if the prestresses are in a range beyond those states. In the first part of the present article the authors illustrate by numerical calculation for viscous fluid, that when the prestresses are in one region, two waves (one fast and other slow) propagate and both attenuate; when the prestresses are in another region, the fast wave attenuates but the slow wave amplifies. In the second part of the article the authors outline a method of determining prestresses in the tube from experimental determination of wave speeds and attenuation factors.