A significant change in blood flow, pressure distribution, wall shear stress and resistance to flow has universally observed when an impediment has developed in the arterial lumen. Generally, in the artery, the impediment developments are resulted from the lipoproteins and fatty acids deposition at the sites of atherosclerosis lesion. Consequently, a stenosed artery has been formed. In the stenosed section the velocity gradient near the wall region is steeper due to the increased core velocity resulting in relatively large shear stress on the wall even for a mild stenosis. Several researchers Fung [1] , McDonald [2] , Mazumdar [3] and Zamir [4] have given mathematical treatment to the blood flow in arteries subject to various physiological conditions. A fairly good number of theoretical and experimental studies on the blood flow through stenosed artery are available in the published literature, and some of them are Young [5] , Srivastava [6] [7] , Liu et al. [8] , Yao and Li [9] , Mekheimer and ElKot [10] .

The use of catheters is of immense importance and has become a standard tool for diagnosis and treatment in modern medicine. When a catheter is inserted into the stenosed artery, the further increased impedance or frictional resistance to flow will alter the velocity distribution. Kanai et al. [11] established analytically that for each experiment, a catheter of an appropriate size is required in order to reduce the error due to the wave reflection at the tip of the catheter. The mean flow resistance increase during coronary artery catheterization in normal as well as stenosed arteries has been studied by Back et al. [12] . A number of theoretical studies of suspensions in general and blood flow in particular are given by Jones [13] , Nuber [14] , Brunn [15] , and experimental studies by Bugliarello and Hayden [16] ; Bennet [17] , suggest the likely presence of slip (a velocity discontinuity) at the flow boundaries (or in their immediate neighbourhood). Misra and Shit [18] , Ponalgusamy [19] , have developed mathematical models for blood flow through stenosed arterial segment, by taking a velocity slip condition at the constricted wall.

The study of flow of an electrically conducting fluid through a stenosed artery with permeable walls not only possesses a theoretical importance, but also is useful for many biological and engineering problems such as magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) generators, blood flow problems, plasma studies. In the technical fields, the specification of MHD studies can be found in Moreau [20] . Kolin [21] has established that the biological systems in general are greatly affected by the application of external magnetic field. Barnothy [22] investigated that the heart rate decreases by exposing biological systems to an external magnetic field. Korchevskii and Marcochnik [23] have discussed the possibility of regulating the blood movement in human system by applying magnetic field. In the decade of eighties, engineers attracted towards impact of magnetic field in biomedical flow primarily with a view to utilizing MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) in controlling blood flow velocities in surgical procedures and also establishing the effects of magnetic fields on blood flows in astronauts, citizens living in the vicinity of EM (electromagnetic) towers etc. Several researchers [24] -[26] have worked out significant studies on hydromagnetic blood flow in artery. Layek et al. [27] and Kumar et al. [28] worked on a mathematical model to study flow through a variable shape stenosed artery under the influence of magnetic field and demonstrated the effect of stenosis shape and magnetic field on the resistance to the flow. Mekheimer [29] studied MHD, viscous, incompressible fluid flow in an inclined plane channel with electrical insulated walls using a perturbation expansion. They found the explicit relation for velocity flow, pressure rise and flow rate in terms of Reynolds number, wave number, Hartmann number, fround number, inclined angle and the occlusion.

These researches motivated for the present study of blood flow in catheterized stenosed artery subject to a velocity slip at the stenosed arterial wall under the influence of transverse magnetic field will be quite rational for theoretical study of blood flow and explanation of disease linked with flow dysfunction.

The problem considered here is to study pulsatile blood flow through an inclined axially symmetric catheterized stenosed artery with slip velocity at the arterial wall. The blood vessel geometry is determined by the radius R₀ of the inlet and outlet unconstricted segment, whereas the radius of the smooth axisymmetric constricted segment is given by

where 2L is the length of stenosis and δ is maximum height of the stenosis.

In the cylindrical coordinate system, the axis of the vessel coincides with the -axis and the origin corresponds to the peak point of the stenosis. The diameter of the artery is assumed to be greater than 1 mm so that Fahreus-Lindquist effect is not significant. The flow through the artery is in the influence of external magnetic field, an electromagnetic force will be produced due to the interaction of current with magnetic field when electrically conducting fluid like blood is flowing in the magnetic field.

The electromotive force is proportional to the speed of motion and the magnetic flux intensity B (Tashtoush and Magableh, [30] ). The Maxwells equations describing the magnetohydrodynamic flow are

where, is the electric field intensity, is the magnetic flux intensity is the electric permeability and is the current density. If is the electrical conductivity, Then generalized Ohm’s law is

The induced electromagnetic force is defined as

Following Cowling [31] that there is no applied or polarization voltage so that. We assumed a magnetic field with a constant transverse magnetic flux density of moderate strength so that induced magnetic field is negligible. On the flowing blood with velocity field in the cylindrical coordinate system described by the magnetohydrodynamic force is

the unit vector in axial direction. Invoking these assumptions the governing equations of the motion of blood as Newtonian incompressible fluid with axisymmetric condition is given by

where, axial velocity, the pressure, time, viscosity of the blood, ρ density of the blood, gravitational acceleration, the aspect ratio of catheter radius to radius of artery, catheter speed, the slip velocity, inclination of the artery as shown in Figure 1.

Introducing the following non-dimensional parameters:

where, H the Hartmann number, Re the catheter speed based Reynold’s number.

On putting these parameters in the Equations (8) and (9), the equation of motion and boundary conditions in dimensionless form reduces to

The corresponding boundary conditions are

Let us assume the pressure gradient in the dimensionless form as

where, f is constant pressure gradient. The governing equation of motion is nonlinear coupled partial differential equation. For its solution, let us consider

where ω is the frequency of the oscillations of pulsatile blood flow.

On plugging Equation (14) into Equation (11) and comparing coefficient of like powers of ε, we have zero-order and first order equations.

The flow profiles are derived for mild stenoses of thickness 20% of radius of artery. The catheter motion is taken in the positive z-direction.

Figure 2 shows that the effect of magnetic field reduces the flow speed result of which its gradient has been declined for higher value of Hartmann number (H).

Figure 3 depicts that with the increase of Reynolds number, i.e. on the increase of catheter speed, the flow velocity increases in both the cases, with slip or without slip at the wall of the artery. The slip at the arterial wall fairly increases the flow velocity as compare to the no-slip at the arterial wall. The effect of slip velocity at the arterial wall is more in magnitude at low Reynolds number (Re) and its effect diminished with the increase of

Re. The increase in the angle of inclination of the artery (Figure 1), the flow velocity augmented substantially at the core region of the annulus is observed in Figure 4. Figure 5 demonstrate that the flow in the annulus region is substantially affected by the aspect ratio (k) of catheter radius to radius of artery. The increase in the value of k produces more surface resistance resulted significant retardation in flow through annulus region. It is observed from Figure 6 that wall shear stress (WSS) increases with the increase in Hartmann number in the similar manner for both the cases of with slip or without slip at the arterial wall. At small value of H, the WSS with slip flow at the arterial wall is very close to its counter case of without slip flow at the wall while on increasing value of H the WSS is greater for slip flow case.

The WSS is reduces with the increase in the catheter speed based Reynolds number as observed in Figure 7. In view of physical model under consideration, the enhancement in flow velocity can be committed with increase in, that conclude the reduction in WSS with the increase of as depicted from Figure 8. The increase in the value of k produces more surface resistance resulted significant growth in the WSS as observed in Figure 9.

The volumetric flow rate (Q) diminishes with the increase of H is depicted from Figure 10 while Q enhanced with the increase of Re, and aspect ratio k as observed from Figures 11-13 respectively.

The wall shear stress gradient (WSSG) increases with the increase in H and Re as observed in Figures 14 and 15 respectively.

Figure 16 depict that WSSG decreases with the aspect ratio k.

Figures 17-19 demonstrate that the impedance on the flow is significantly affected by H, Re and k

throughout in the stenosis region of artery.

At the maximum height of stenosis is appreciably diminishes with the increase of H, is in good agreement with the results of Mekheimer and Kot [10] . The impedance on the flow in annulus has augmented with the increase of Re and k, shown in the Figures 18 and 19 respectively.

Ÿ  Wall shear stress increases with increasing transverse magnetic field.

Ÿ  WSSG high at the apex of the stenosis indicates more disturbed flow at this location.

Ÿ  The impedance at the apex of the stenosis reduces increasing transverse magnetic field strength.

Ÿ  The impedance on the flow in annulus has augmented with the increase of Re and k.