TY - JOUR T1 - Non-Newtonian Flow of Blood Through an Atherosclerotic Artery AU - Ratan Shah, Sapna JO - Research Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 76 EP - 80 PY - 2011 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-932x DO - rjasci.2011.76.80 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2011.76.80 KW - resistance to flow KW -power-law fluid KW -stenosis KW -Non-Newtonian fluid KW -apparent viscosity KW -India AB - An attempt has been made to investigate the Non-Newtonian behavior on blood flow through a stenosed artery using Power-law fluid model. Numerical illustration presented at the end of the paper provides the results for the resistance to flow, apparent viscosity and the wall shear stress through their graphical representations. It has been shown that the resistance to flow, apparent viscosity and wall shear stress increases with the size of the stenosis but these increases is comparatively small due to Non-Newtonian behavior of the blood indicating the usefulness of its rheological character in the functioning of the diseased arterial circulation. ER -