Conclusions
The current work deals with blood flow through an elbow artery treated
as a porous medium. The study has been confirmed and compared with the
other case studies outcomes. To examine the feedback of the action of
blood flow in vessels, which has been tackled by varying the Reynolds
number, the porosity of the vessel and permeability. The numerical
simulations could be used as an indicator of how the blood flow velocity
influenced in a bend vessel. In addition, the assumed penalty values
such as different diameters used in the analysis discussed above can be
more accurately estimated or calibrated by this study. Finally, the
effect of the bend vessel on the blood flow has been examined. It is
observed that the magnitude of velocity profile is change along the
locations of the vessel. The numerical results also have a good
agreement with other reference cases. This study also demonstrates that
the hydrodynamic of velocity in a bend vessel can also be easily
modelled using the developed numerical procedures.