Fluid Dynamics Part 1 Flashcards
What are arteries characteristics?
Oxygenated blood to tissues High pressure Start at heart and ends at periphery and organs Thick walled Aorta – largest Driven by the heart
What are veins characteristics?
Return deoxygenated blood to heart Low pressure Start at periphery and ends at right atrium of heart Thin walls IVC – largest Driven by respiration and muscles
What do pulmonary arteries do?
Only pulmonary arteries transport unoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs
Other characteristics of arteries?
Firm, Non-compressible walls
Pulsatile waveforms
Have differences in resistance of waveforms in different parts of the body
Deliver oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body
Only pulmonary arteries transport unoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs
Driven by the heart as a pump
High pressure system
What are the three layers of arteries?
intima, media, adventitia
Describe circulation
Increased pressure in LT Ventricle
Aortic valve opens
Blood ejects from LT Ventricle
Waves of energy pass through the vessels
These waves are continuous with the beating of the heart
The arteries hold a reservoir of blood as the energy increases and decreases
What is energy gradiant?
When there is a difference in total fluid energy from one location to another blood will flow
What are forms of energy?
Kinetic
Pressure
Gravitational
What happens when there is a change of energy?
If there is a change in one type of energy the others must change to conserve the total amount of energy
What is pressure energy?
Potential energy
Ability to do work
Pressure in a vessel helps blood to overcome resistance and continue to flow
What is kinetic energy?
Moving objects Depends on Mass of object Speed of object Thus heavy objects with high velocity have more kinetic energy than lighter objects with slow velocity
What is gravitational energy?
Stored or potential energy
Anything that is elevated as stored gravitational energy
Where does blood flow gets its energy from?
contractions of the heart
What are loses of energy?
Viscous Loss
Frictional Loss
Inertial Loss
What is viscosity?
Viscosity is the thickness of any fluid
Syrup has a high viscosity (thick)
Lemonade has a low viscosity (not thick)
What happens to higher viscosity?
the more energy lost
What measures percentage of red blood cells in the blood?
hematocrit
What happens if the hematocrit is low?
If hematocrit is low than the blood has a reduction in viscosity.
What is frictional energy loss?
One object rubs against another
Flow energy is converted to heat energy
What is an example of an frictional energy loss?
Example – blood rubs along the vessel walls causing a frictional energy loss.
What is inertial energy loss?
Inertia – resistance to change velocity
When an object changes its velocity it will lose energy