Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 189-202 , March 2010

Wall shear stress variations in a 90-degree bifurcation in 3D pulsating flows

  • Philip Evegren

      Affiliations

    • Department of Energy Sciences, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 703493636.
    • ,
  • Laszlo Fuchs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Energy Sciences, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
    • Department of Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Johan Revstedt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Energy Sciences, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Received 5 May 2009 ,Revised 12 October 2009 ,Accepted 23 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.11.008

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 189-202 , March 2010

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