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Blood and Blood Flow

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Blood is the fluid which flows in the cardiovascular system. It is, however, not a pure fluid but rather a suspension of a number of different particles (cells, cell fragments and macromolecules) in a fluid base. This chapter explores the fluid behaviour of blood including the impact of the particles on this behaviour.

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  1. Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter R. Hoskins

  2. Castlebrae Community High School, Edinburgh, UK

    David Hardman

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  1. University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queens Medical Research Institute , Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Peter R. Hoskins

  2. University of Sheffield, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease/Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicin, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Patricia V. Lawford

  3. School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Barry J. Doyle

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Hoskins, P.R., Hardman, D. (2017). Blood and Blood Flow. In: Hoskins, P., Lawford, P., Doyle, B. (eds) Cardiovascular Biomechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46407-7_3

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