Table 2.

WSS simulation results in curved pipes, at four control points marked in Fig. 4 (a through d ).

		R/r	R/r	R/r
	WSS location	2.0	4.0	10
Outer	τa min	0.009	0.015	0.054
	τa max	1.662	2.228	2.734
	τamax/τamin	185.119	145.845	50.261
	τamax – τamin	1.653	2.213	2.680
	(τamax – τamin)/τamax	0.995	0.993	0.980
	τc min	0.172	0.093	0.035
	τc max	5.785	4.018	3.424
	τcmax/τcmin	33.544	42.989	99.222
	τcmax – τcmin	5.612	3.924	3.390
	(τcmax – τcmin)/τcmax	0.970	0.977	0.990
Inner	τb min	0.153	0.081	0.264
	τb max	4.536	0.665	3.302
	τbmax/τbmin	29.724	8.166	12.487
	τbmax – τbmin	4.384	0.583	3.038
	(τbmax – τbmin)/τbmax	0.966	0.878	0.920
	τd min	0.035	0.241	0.016
	τd max	2.642	2.889	3.001
	τdmax/τdmin	75.477	11.995	188.725
	τdmax – τdmin	2.607	2.648	2.985
	(τdmax – τdmin)/τdmax	0.987	0.917	0.995