Pulsatile Blood Flow Modelling

Right at the start of lockdown I had my last supervision of third year, in which there was a discussion about a graph in the lecture notes (taken from a textbook) that was presented confusingly. We all agreed a 3D animation would give a much more intuitive understanding of the concept, and the lecturer (supervisor) suggested that would be a fun extension after the supervision. That afternoon I put together some python to generate the animations from the equations in the lecture notes, which demonstrate how blood flows in arteries with a periodically varying pressure gradient, and how that varies with the dimensionless quantity that governs the relative effects of viscosity and inertia.

These animations are great fun to watch, and the code to generate them is on my Github profile. One such animation is shown below.