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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2011 Sep 8;11(5):715–729. doi: 10.1007/s10237-011-0345-8

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Schematic diagram of a saccular aneurysm near the bifurcation of an artery in the circle of Wills. Pictured is the idealization of the aneurysm into spherical and cylindrical shapes. The cylindrical model is used in the experiments and simulations performed in this work. Our cylindrical model ignores the boundary effect of distal end of the saccular aneurysm