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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2012 Jan 1;2(1):295–319. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c100070

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Average hydraulic power of the inlet (IN, MPA) and outlet (OUT, pulmonary vein, near left atrium) of the pulmonary bed of anesthetized, open-chest dogs. Regions above and below the hydraulic power = 0 line are both positive valued. Upper region contains pressure-potential and kinetic energy terms associated with oscillatory component of blood flow. Lower region contains analogous terms for the steady-flow component. Input and output hydraulic power values are shown in their respective columns with the difference between the two being the power dissipated (DISS) throughout the pulmonary bed during the cardiac cycle (87).