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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2016 Dec 14;52:61–67. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.12.008

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Simulation results depicting swirling strength and streamlines for all subjects with elevated jugular bulbs. Top Row: Swirling strength distributions throughout the jugular vein representing regions of vortical flow. Note the presence of a large vortex core encompassing the nearly the entire volume of the proximal jugular vein. Middle Row: Streamlines representing the flow field within the jugular vein. Note that most streamlines have a significant component that is perpendicular to the direction of flow. Bottom Row: Streamlines visualized with swirling strength. Note the outermost streamlines encircling the prominent vortex core.