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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech Eng. 2006 Apr;128(2):271–278. doi: 10.1115/1.2165689

Table 1.

Comparison of shear rates upstream and above a cell calculated from PIV and CFD results.

Upstream wall shear rate Local shear rate Ratio
PIV results 51.0 s−1 124.21 s−1 2.44
257.7 s−1 502.4 s−1 1.95
CFD results 48.0 s−1 123.34 s−1 2.57
232.8 s−1 507 s−1 2.18