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Table 1 Relationship between shear stress and viscosity

From: Mathematical model of blunt injury to the vascular wall via formation of rouleaux and changes in local hemodynamic and rheological factors. Implications for the mechanism of traumatic myocardial infarction

Yield velocity (s-1)

The volume fraction of the second phase

Viscosity (mNsm-2)

Shear stress (N/m2)

0.2

28.7

13

0.0026

 

35.9

30

0.006

 

48

63

0.0126

5

28.7

6

0.03

 

35.9

8

0.04

 

48

15

0.075

100

28.7

4

0.4

 

35.9

5

0.5

 

48

6

0.6

500

28.7

3

1.5

 

35.9

3

1.5

 

48

4

2