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The problem of the viscous flow of an incompressible Newtonian liquid in a converging tapered tube has been solved in spherical polar coordinates. The method of the solution involves the Stokes' stream function and a technique introduced by Stokes in the study of a sphere oscillating in a fluid. The theory for the flow in a rigid tube includes: (1) the pulsatile flow with both radial and angular velocity components; (2) the steady state flow with both radial and angular velocity components and (3) the very slow steady state flow with only a radial velocity component present. For a tapered elastic tube, the velocity of the propagated pulse wave is determined. The solution given is in terms of the elastic constants of the system and the coordinates for this type of geometry. The pulse velocity is then related to the velocity in an elastic cylindrical tube with the necessary correction terms to account for the tapered tube.
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Supported in part by the American Heart Association (No. 62F4EG).
This work was done during the tenure of an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association.
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Cerny, L.C., Walawender, W.P. The flow of a viscous liquid in a converging tube. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 28, 11–24 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476388
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