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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Artif Organs. 2009 Oct 12;34(5):402–411. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00875.x

FIG. 6.

FIG. 6

Velocity field illustrating tip leakage for three clearances studied. Left column: relative velocity vectors projected onto four radial sections of r = 7.5, 10, 15, and 20 mm, colored according to velocity magnitude. Middle column: particle pathlines. Right column: Scalar shear stress distribution on cut-plane through mean height of blade tip clearance. (Rotational direction is clockwise.)