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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2012 Feb 16;45(7):1199–1204. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.01.031

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Geometry of the aortic valve model. (A) Three leaflets joined at the commissures and wrapped into a cylinder. (B) Three-leaflet mesh deformed by dilating the cylinder to which the constrained edges (lower edges and commissures) of the leaflets are attached.