Characteristics of blood flow resistance under transverse vibration: red blood cell suspension in Dextran-40.

Vibration under shear flow causes the reduction of flow resistance for shear-thinning fluids. The present study investigates the effect of vibration on the flow resistance of a nonaggregating red blood cell (RBC) suspension with a newly designed pressure-scanning capillary viscometer (PSCV). The PSCV was originally designed to measure non-Newtonian viscosity continuously over a range of shear rates at a time, which was slightly modified and used for the present study.