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From: Coronary artery bypass grafting hemodynamics and anastomosis design: a biomedical engineering review

Figure 20

Flow-splitter. Schematic wire-frame view of a graft-artery junction and implanted flow-splitter. This flow-splitter can divert the flow from the arterial bed to avoid flow impingement on the bed, mitigate the flow separation at the toe, and reduce the size of flow recirculation areas. However, it causes flow impingements on the arterial side-walls and increases the WSS on both sides of the artery bed centerline which can result in high values of time-averaged WSSG (taken from [162] with permission).

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