Figure 3
Effects of changing vascular damping factor λ on cardiac and vascular pressures (peripheral artery (light red), ascending aorta (dark red), left ventricle (red), pulmonary artery (orange), right ventricle (yellow), left atrium (brown), right atrium (blue)) related to the viscous properties of the vascular walls. Very low values results in numerical instability in the model. A value of 0.5 is chosen in all presented simulations.