Lattice Boltzmann simulation of behaviour of particles moving in blood vessels under the rolling massage
Yi Hou-Hui(伊厚会)a)†, Yang Xiao-Feng(杨小锋)b), Wang Cai-Feng(王彩凤)a), and Li Hua-Bing(李华兵)c)
a Department of Physics and Electronics Science, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China; b Department of Computer Engineering, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College, Yiwu 322000, China; c Department of Information Material Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
Abstract The rolling massage is one of the most important manipulations in Chinese massage, which is expected to eliminate many diseases. Here, the effect of the rolling massage on a pair of particles moving in blood vessels under rolling massage manipulation is studied by the lattice Boltzmann simulation. The simulated results show that the motion of each particle is considerably modified by the rolling massage, and it depends on the relative rolling velocity, the rolling depth, and the distance between particle position and rolling position. Both particles' translational average velocities increase almost linearly as the rolling velocity increases, and obey the same law. The increment of the average relative angular velocity for the leading particle is smaller than that of the trailing one. The result is helpful for understanding the mechanism of the massage and to further develop the rolling techniques.
Received: 08 September 2008
Revised: 12 February 2009
Accepted manuscript online:
Fund: Project supported by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10747004), the
National Key Basic Research Programme of China (Grant No
2006CB708612), and the Science Foundation of
Guangxi, China (Grant No 0640064).
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Yi Hou-Hui(伊厚会), Yang Xiao-Feng(杨小锋), Wang Cai-Feng(王彩凤), and Li Hua-Bing(李华兵) Lattice Boltzmann simulation of behaviour of particles moving in blood vessels under the rolling massage 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2878
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