Fig. 2.

(a) The anatomically realistic aorta geometry reconstructed from MRI data with the straight inlet and outlet additions as in Ref. [33] and the placement of the valves at different orientations inside it. The ascending aorta is almost symmetric about its plane of curvature (dash-double-dot line). (b) The placement of the valves inside the sinus from top view. The original orientation of the leaflet (vertical leaflets) [33] was parallel to the plane of curvature of the ascending aorta. The 90 deg orientation (horizontal leaflets) are perpendicular to this plane of curvature while the 45 deg orientation (inclined leaflets) is in between.