How viscoelastic is human blood plasma?

S Varchanis, Y Dimakopoulos, C Wagner… - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood plasma has been considered a Newtonian fluid for decades. Recent experiments
(Brust et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2013, 110) revealed that blood plasma has a pronounced …

Venous thromboembolism: review of clinical challenges, biology, assessment, treatment, and modeling

C Watson, H Saaid, V Vedula, JC Cardenas… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2024 - Springer
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a massive clinical challenge, annually affecting millions
of patients globally. VTE is a particularly consequential pathology, as incidence is correlated …

Advanced constitutive modeling of the thixotropic elasto-visco-plastic behavior of blood: Description of the model and rheological predictions

K Giannokostas, P Moschopoulos, S Varchanis… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work focuses on the advanced modeling of the thixotropic nature of blood, coupled with
an elasto-visco-plastic formulation by invoking a consistent and validated model for TEVP …

The Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect in small blood vessels: how does it help the heart?

M Ascolese, A Farina, A Fasano - Journal of Biological Physics, 2019 - Springer
The Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect is usually explained from a physical point of view with the so-
called Haynes' marginal zone theory, ie, migration of red blood cells (RBCs) to a core layer …

Electric factors in wound healing

PL Farber, FC Isoldi, LM Ferreira - Advances in Wound Care, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Electric factors such as electric charges, electrodynamic field, skin battery, and
interstitial exclusion permeate wound healing physiology and physiopathology from injury to …

Quantifying the non-Newtonian effects of pulsatile hemodynamics in tubes

K Giannokostas, D Photeinos, Y Dimakopoulos… - Journal of Non …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate in silico the pulsatile blood flow in straight, rigid tubes using an elasto-
viscoplastic, constitutive model coupled with thixotropy (TEVP)(Varchanis et al., 2019; …

Shear stress and intravascular pressure effects on vascular dynamics: Two-phase blood flow in elastic microvessels accounting for the passive stresses

K Giannokostas, Y Dimakopoulos… - … and Modeling in …, 2022 - Springer
We study the steady hemodynamics in physiological elastic microvessels proposing an
advanced fluid–structure interaction model. The arteriolar tissue is modeled as a two-layer …

TEVP model predictions of the pulsatile blood flow in 3D aneurysmal geometries

K Giannokostas, Y Dimakopoulos - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, significant progress in hemorheological modeling has occurred after the
development of constitutive models able to represent the major physical mechanisms that …

Advanced constitutive modeling of the thixotropic elasto-visco-plastic behavior of blood: steady-state blood flow in microtubes

K Giannokostas, Y Dimakopoulos, A Anayiotos… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The present work focuses on the in-silico investigation of the steady-state blood flow in
straight microtubes, incorporating advanced constitutive modeling for human blood and …

Red blood cell hitchhiking enhances the accumulation of nano-and micro-particles in the constriction of a stenosed microvessel

H Ye, Z Shen, M Wei, Y Li - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the circulation of nano-and micro-particles, including spherical particles and
filamentous nanoworms, with red blood cells (RBCs) suspension in a constricted channel …