Fig. 3.

Effect of blood flow velocity. (a) Exponential thrombus growth rate coefficients as a function of flow rate in small vessel 50 μm in diameter is shown. The mean values are shown as circles, individual values from replicate computer simulations are indicated by asterisks, and the trend of the mean growth rate coefficients as a function of flow rate matching qualitatively the trend from Begent and Born (1) is shown. (b) For four flow rates, the effect of sinusoidal flow pulsations (mean of replicate computer simulations) is shown for various relative amplitudes ε of pulsation compared with steady-flow means (○) and standard deviations (vertical bars). △ indicates ε = 0.1; ▷ indicates ε = 0.3; ▽ indicates ε = 0.5, and ◁ indicates ε = 0.7.