What is the largest average velocity of blood flow in an artery of radius 2 × 10^–3m if the flow must remain lanimar?

Reynolds’s number,

Where,

ρ = density of the fluid

v = largest average velocity of the fluid

D = diameter of the duct

μ = viscosity of the fluid

We have,

Density of the blood, ρ = 1.06 × 10³ kg/m³

Reynolds’s number for laminar flow in duct, Re = 2000

Viscosity of the blood, μ = 2.084 × 10^-3 Nm/s

Thus,

Largest average velocity,

= 0.982 m/s