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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2012 Aug;19(6):530–538. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2012.00184.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A. If boundary conditions (pressure or flow, including at least one pressure boundary conditions) are specified at all boundary nodes of a network, and the flow resistances of all segments are known, then the flow rates in all segments of the network are fully determined (solid lines). B. With incomplete boundary data, the equations governing flow in the network lead to an underdetermined linear system, and flows in some segments remain as unknowns (dashed lines).