Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major health concerns globally, mainly caused by inadequate blood flow in different body parts. The lack of blood flow is often due to abnormal narrowing of blood vessels, and a systematic technique to boost blood flow in these areas can help cure the disease. One such method uses elevated temperatures to influence blood flow in the concerned areas. This paper investigates this process, i.e. the forced convection, through blood flow in a stenotic region of a human artery. A part of the stenotic region is considered a porous medium and the top wall is subjected to a higher temperature with a lid moving from left to right. Blood is considered as a non-Newtonian fluid with the power law index varying from 0.5 to 1.5. The geometric properties are considered to match the problem of blood flow in the artery affected by stenosis. The Carreau-Yasuda model is used to represent the non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media and the numerical analysis is carried out using the Lattice Boltzmann method. This problem is investigated to study the influence of the moving lid and other geometric properties on convection and flow properties such as velocity profiles, streamlines, isotherms and heat transfer.
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