Catheter-modulated transient solute dispersion in micropolar annular flow with a retentive and absorptive arterial wall

Abstract

We study transient solute dispersion in pressure-driven micropolar flow through a concentric annulus representing a catheterized artery. The catheter is impermeable to solute, whereas the arterial wall combines irreversible removal with reversible surface retention. The exact steady micropolar velocity field is coupled to the Gill-Sankarasubramanian generalized-dispersion framework; the resulting bulk-surface hierarchy is advanced with Rannacher-damped Crank-Nicolson time stepping to determine $K_0(t)$, $K_1(t)$ and $K_2(t)$. The exchange coefficient is independent of the micropolar parameters and satisfies $-K_0(0^+)=2(β+θDa)/(1-λ^2)$, whereas $K_2-Pe^{-2}\simσ_v^2t$ initially, so the leading short-time dispersion is hydrodynamic and independent of wall kinetics. In the weak-reaction regime, micropolarity modifies convection approximately linearly and shear dispersion quadratically through the velocity-amplitude factor. A narrow-gap analysis with $\varepsilon=1-λ$ gives $\bar v\sim(2-N_c)\varepsilon^2/6$ and $K_2-Pe^{-2}\sim(2-N_c)^2\varepsilon^6/7560$ for a fixed pressure gradient, revealing a sixth-power suppression of shear dispersion as the catheter approaches the arterial wall. Increasing $λ$ from $0.01$ to $0.30$ reduces effective convection by about a factor of $2.45$, while chemically passive shear-induced dispersion falls by a factor of $24$. The coupled formulation also yields the exact partition $Φ_m+Φ_s+Φ_a=1$, separating mobile, reversibly retained and irreversibly absorbed solute. The reconstructed field quantifies reaction-modulated transverse non-uniformity, while the results distinguish hydrodynamic effects of confinement and microrotation from kinetic wall effects.