Fig 1.
Geometry of the catheterized artery.
Table 1.
Plausible values of involved parameters for different blood vessels [29, 40, 41].
Table 2.
Values of Womersley number for different blood vessels [42].
Fig 2.
Variation of velocity with radial distance for (α = 0.5, β = 0.9, B1 = 2, B2 = 1, k = 0.1, e = 0.3).
Fig 3.
Variation of velocity with radial distance for different values of catheter radius (t = 0.3, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.1, α = 0.5, β = 0.9, B1 = 2, B2 = 1, e = 0.3).
Fig 4.
Variation of velocity with radial distance with different peripheral layer position (t = 1, e = 0.3, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.1, α = 0.5, B1 = 2, B1 = 1).
Fig 5.
Variation of velocity with radial distance with (t = 0.3, B2 = 2, e = 0.5, α = 0.5, B1 = 2 β = 0.9).
Fig 6.
Variation of velocity with radial distance with the variation of α (t = 0.3, B1 = 2, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.2, e = 0.5, B2 = 2, β = 0.9).
Fig 7.
Variation of velocity with radial distance with the variation of B2 (t = 0.3, B1 = 2, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.2, e = 0.5, β = 0.9, α = 0.5).
Fig 8.
Variation of flow rate in a cycle of oscillation for different values of λ1 and λ2 with (β = 0.9, B1 = 2, e = 0.5, B2 = 0.0, α = 0.5).
Fig 9.
Variation of flow rate in a cycle of oscillation for different values of e and α with (e = 0.5, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.2, β = 0.9, k = 0.3, B2 = 2, B2 = 1).
Fig 10.
Variation of flow rate in a cycle of oscillation for different values of k and β with (e = 0.5, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.1, α = 0.3, B1 = 2, B1 = 1).
Fig 11.
Variation of wall shear stress in a cycle of oscillation for different values of e and β with (e = 0.5, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.1, α = 0.3, k = 0.3, B2 = 1, B1 = 2).
Fig 12.
Variation of wall shear stress in a cycle of oscillation for different values of k, λ2 and λ1 (β = 0.9, e = 0.5, B1 = 2, B2 = 1.0, α = 0.5).
Fig 13.
Variation of longitudinal impedance in a cycle of oscillation for different values of k with (β = 0.9, e = 0.1, B2 = 0, λ1 = 0.2, λ2 = 0.1, α = 0.3).