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. 2016 Feb 12;8:18. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00018

Table 3.

Simulation cases used to determine the necessity of convective transport mechansims to explain perivascular drainage.

Case Diffusion coefficient D* Bulk flow velocity in white matter u Perivascular drainage velocity |ub| Uptake rate kb Pe
A1 D* 0 0 0 0
A2 D* 0 0 0 0
A3 10·D* 0 0 0 0
B1 D* u 0 0 11.08 (u)
B2 D* 5·u 0 0 55.38 (u)
B3 D* 10·u 0 0 110.76 (u)
C1 D* u ub kb 527.22 (ub)
C2 D* u ub/2 kb 263.61 (ub)
C3 D* u ub/2 kb/10 263.61 (ub)
C4 D* u ub/2 kb/10 105.44 (ub)

D* = 8.7 × 10−11 m2 s−1, |u| = 1.75 × 10−7 m s−1, |ub = 8.33 × 10−11 m s−1, kb = 2.5 × 10−4 s−1 (Table 1).