Blood (mwah ha ha)

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Is anybody familiar with work that may have been done on modeling the rheological fluid properties of blood (during coagulation)?

I know this is a bizarre question, but I'm consulting for vampires :)

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Okay, so I'll reply to my own post.

Boy, there's a journal for everything! I've just been leafing through the Journal "Biorheology". Fascinating stuff, that. Structured non-Newtownian viscoelastic fluids- that will make for some very interesting and involved CFD models (especially when coagulation, which is very like cross-linking, is involved).

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If youre still intersted in blood, i did some work on human blood at a temperature of 37 degrees with 46% hemoglobin at a freuqency of 2Hz. I just used a eulearian function to express the viscosity. Shearstrain T over Shearrate D is expressed like T=0.015*D^0.85. There are literature from CHMIEL and THURSTON for example to get more data

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Thanks, that's pretty interesting!