As the incidence of vascular disease increases, the need for blood analog fluids for hemodynamic analysis is increasing. Most previous studies have focused on the blood analog fluid for normal hematocrit which is approximately 40%. This study presents...
As the incidence of vascular disease increases, the need for blood analog fluids for hemodynamic analysis is increasing. Most previous studies have focused on the blood analog fluid for normal hematocrit which is approximately 40%. This study presents an explicit approach to the development of blood analog fluid with various hematocrit values. We use a mixture of xanthan gum, glycerin and deionized water as the blood analog fluid and investigate the effect of mass fraction of each component on the viscosity behavior. As a result, the xanthan gum was found to have an effect on increasing slope of graph by increasing viscosity at low shear rate, and the glycerin was found to have an influence on increasing overall viscosity values. We expect that the results of this study would contribute to wide range of studies that require blood analog fluids.