Danger said:
I can't help you at all, but I'm going to ask a friend in biology to take a look at your post and see if she can do something for you.
KMCB1234 said:
Really,
I am happy if she could give me even source code so that I don't have to think
Pfft, that means he PM'd me to let me know someone was asking about blood flow in the Physics forum.
Source code I can't help with, nor can I help with modeling. But if you need help understanding cardiovascular physiology, while it's not my field of specialty, I was taught physiology by a cardiovascular physiologist, so really had that topic drilled into my head as a student.
When you say you're working on blood flow related to respiration, do you mean flow through the vasculature in the lungs, or do you mean modeling gradients of oxygen/CO2 transfer between the lungs and red blood cells? These would be two very different questions. How realistic does your model need to be? I ask, because you mention red blood cells, but there are of course other types of blood cells in addition to the fluid serum that all the cells are carried in. Other parameters you may or may not want or need to consider are cardiac output, changes in vasodilation (blood vessels are elastic, so have variables that rigid pipe wouldn't have), obstructions such as from atherosclerosis plaques, and cell counts (% of the blood volume containing the different types of blood cells).
It'll certainly be a challenge to model this system, so I'd suggest, if you're allowed to do so for your project, focus in on a fairly narrow aspect of it: just the pulmonary blood vessels, or only capillaries, for example. If that ends up too simple, you can keep adding to it until you have enough for your project rather than starting too broadly with too many parameters to consider all at once.
