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Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle

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Biomechanics

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Continuing the biomechanical analysis of specific organs in accordance with detailed anatomical data, we present in this chapter blood flow in skeletal muscles. A systematic approach should begin with the collection of geometric and materials data, determination of the constitutive equations of the materials, derivation of basic equations according to the laws of physics and chemistry, and formulation of meaningful boundary value problems, and then proceed to solve the equations, predict results, and validate the predictions with animal experiments. Such a program has been carried out by Schmid-Schönbein and his associates for blood flow in skeletal muscle. We present their main results here.

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Fung, Y.C. (1997). Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle. In: Biomechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2696-1_8

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