... and heat transfer by different numerical approaches. Design/methodology/approach The fluid flow and heat transfer in the carotid artery with three different sinus sizes, three different sinus locations and four different hematocrits are studied by both computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid...

... flow through large arteries, such as the human carotid artery can be represented by an incompressible, Newtonian flow model (Leuprecht and Perktold, 2001). Therefore, the non‐dimensional Navier‐Stokes equations can be written in non‐conservation form to solve forced convection problems, i.e...