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. 2019 Jan 18;141(3):0310051–03100511. doi: 10.1115/1.4042184

Table 7.

Model parameters of the common carotid artery taken from Boileau et al. [37]

Property Value
Length, L 126 mm
Radius at diastolic pressure, rd 3 mm
Area at diastolic pressure, Ad 0.28274 cm2
Initial cross-sectional area, A(x,0) 0.22038 cm2
Initial flow velocity, U(x,0) 0
Initial pressure, P(x,0) 0
Wall thickness, h 0.3 mm
Blood density, ρ 1060 Kg m−3
Blood viscosity, μ 4 m Pa s
Velocity profile order, γ 2
Young's modulus, E 700.0 kPa
Diastolic pressure, Pd 10.933 kPa
Windkessel resistance, R1 2.4875 × 108 Pa s m−3
Windkessel compliance, C 1.7529 × 10−10 m3.Pa−1
Windkessel resistance, R2 1.8697 × 109 Pa s m−3