It is known that cardiovascular diseases are the major contributor to deaths every year worldwide. Most of these are due to atherosclerosis, a disease in which plaque builds up inside the arteries in the heart, brain, arms, legs, pelvis or kidneys, thus, leading to the development of Coronary heart disease, Carotid heart disease, Peripheral heart disease, chronic kidney disease. In this talk, I present our work on the blood flow dynamics in a diseased human coronary artery caused due to atherosclerosis. This study is essential, particularly in the current situation where COVID-19 has affected the majority of the population across the globe, and studies have revealed that COVID-19 patients are more at risk for the occlusions in arteries and veins [1]. In our work, we developed numerical models using idealized geometry for the carotid artery with Newtonian and non-Newtonian models for blood.
Dr. T S L Radhika is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus. She has a rich teaching experience of 25 years and has to her credit of publishing 25+ papers in various national and international journals. Dr. T S L Radhika works in the area of Fluid mechanics. Her earlier works include the flow of non-Newtonian fluid past porous Spheroidal bodies and Spheroidal shells. She is currently working on semi-analytical solutions to fluid flow problems in flexible circular pipes with blood flow applications in the human circulatory system. Her other areas of interest include flow in curved pipes and heat and fluid flow past axisymmetric bodies in non-Cartesian coordinate systems like Spheroidal and Bipolar. She has co-authored a book on “Approximate methods for solving Ordinary Differential equations”, published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2015.
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