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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2016 Mar 15;6(2):975–1003. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c150038

Figure 16.

Figure 16

Two-phase model for blood flow in a microvessel, with radius a. A central core region containing red blood cells, with viscosity μc and radius λa, is surrounded by a cell-free or cell-depleted layer, with viscosity μp and width δ. A typical resulting velocity profile is shown.