Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 491-496 , May 2007

Numerical implementation of viscoelastic blood flow in a simplified arterial geometry

Received 19 January 2005 ,Revised 20 June 2006 ,Accepted 4 July 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 491-496 , May 2007

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