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Table 3 Differences in wall shear stress magnitudes compared with the parabolic inlet velocity boundary condition case as defined in Eqs. 6 and 7

From: The effect of inlet and outlet boundary conditions in image-based CFD modeling of aortic flow

Velocity boundary

condition

Differences in

TAWSS (\(\%\))

Differences in

WSS

during peak systole (\(\%\))

Differences in

TAWSS up to 1D (\(\%\))

Differences in

WSS up to 1D

during peak systole (\(\%\))

Plug

8.72

15.69

7.21

31.48

Womersley

0.86

6.20

6.84

17.30

Linear shear flow 1

8.09

11.21

18.50

32.53

Linear shear flow 2

0.99

6.42

1.47

17.24

Cubic shear flow 1

5.08

0.63

12.73

2.67

Cubic shear flow 2

1.87

1.83

4.16

5.48