Figure 11

Temperature contours around an inflamed plaque located in a bending artery. Results shown correspond to two different times during the cardiac cycle: t = 4.4, and 4.6 s. Calculations were obtained using the inlet velocity profile of Figure 2a. In this figure, the macrophage layer dimensions are $\dot{q}$ _m = 0.1 W/mm³, l _mp = 1,500 μm, d _mp = 100 μm, d _p = 540 μm, and l _f = 50 μm.