Figure 12.

Effects of sharpness of media-adventitia boundary on opening angles. (A) Transmural elastin volume fractions for the three values of α. As α increases, the boundary becomes sharper. (B) Two-cut opening angles for the three values of α at 12.5% aorta length in the nominal model. As α decreases, the numerical results come into closer agreement with the experimental data of Greenwald et al. (1997). (C) One-cut opening angles along the length of the aorta for the three values of α.