Biphasic Blood Flow in Mesentery Microcirculatory Networks

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how changes in the plasma skimming coefficient affect the hemoconcentration within blood vessel networks. Due to the differences in plasma and red blood cells (RBCs) phases, the RBCs tend to flow at a different rate causing a difference in hematocrit concentration at a bifurcation in a network. This can be quite important when looking into how efficiently tissues are being oxygenated, especially in important regions such as mesentery tissue. This paper will analyze a plasma skimming coefficient model and attempt to utilize a polynomial fit to form a new model to see if improvements can be made by decreasing the number of variables.