A design principle for vascular beds: the effects of complex blood rheology.
We propose a design principle that extends Murray's original optimization principle for vascular architecture to account for complex blood rheology. Minimization of an energy dissipation function enables us to determine how rheology affects the morphology of simple branching networks. The behav...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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