Visco-elastic fluid model in an inclined porous stenosed artery with slip effect and body acceleration

The present paper analyzes an unsteady magnetohydrodynamic blood flow model of an visco-elastic fluid through an inclined porous stenosed artery with body acceleration and slip effect. Navier-Stokes equations have been used to describe the blood flow model. The governing equation of blood flow is solved by an analytic method by considering blood as an incompressible, visco-elastic fluid, and suspension of RBC’s in plasma. Axial velocity, blood acceleration, flow rate, and shear stress are derived numerically by using the finite Laplace and Hankel transformation and their inverse. The effect of parameters such as the visco-elasticity parameter, Womersley number, Hartmann number, inclination angle, parameter of slip, and body acceleration frequency is analyzed. Axial velocity reduces as the Hartmann number and visco-elasticity parameter enhance and it enhances with the enhancement of the slip parameter and inclination angle. The study is beneficial for finding the effect of slip parameter, porosity factor and Hartmann number when a human body is exposed to MRI and CT scan.