An Elastic Tube Theory of Pulse Transmission and Oscillatory Flow in Mammalian Arteries
Report Number: WADC TR 56-614
Author(s): Womersley, John R.
Corporate Author(s): Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Laboratory: Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1957-01
Pages: 254
Contract: No Contract Number in Foreword
DoD Project: 7060
DoD Task:
Identifier: ADB295267
AD Number: AD150242
Abstract:
This work develops the concept of a thin walled elastic tube as a rough working model of an artery, and from a solution of the equations of motion such a tube, filled with viscous liquid, a number of relationships are deduced that can be tested experimentally. The theory of pulse-wave transmission, and the relationships between pulse pressure, rate of flow, and radial expansion, are demonstrated as parts of a single logical structure. Some comparisons with experimental results are made, and new experiments are proposed, as tests of the adequacy of the theory.
Provenance: IIT
Author(s): Womersley, John R.
Corporate Author(s): Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Laboratory: Aeronautical Research Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1957-01
Pages: 254
Contract: No Contract Number in Foreword
DoD Project: 7060
DoD Task:
Identifier: ADB295267
AD Number: AD150242
Abstract:
This work develops the concept of a thin walled elastic tube as a rough working model of an artery, and from a solution of the equations of motion such a tube, filled with viscous liquid, a number of relationships are deduced that can be tested experimentally. The theory of pulse-wave transmission, and the relationships between pulse pressure, rate of flow, and radial expansion, are demonstrated as parts of a single logical structure. Some comparisons with experimental results are made, and new experiments are proposed, as tests of the adequacy of the theory.
Provenance: IIT