Table 1.

Numerical values of model parameters

Parameter	Value	Description
$\mu$	1.06 × 10−3 Pa s	Viscosity of the bone fluid (Cardoso et al. 2013)
$Ca.Rd$	157.5 nm	Radius of the canaliculus (Varga et al. 2015)
$CP.Rd$	73 nm	Radius of the osteocyte process (Buenzli and Sims 2015)
$A$	0.061 µm2	Annular cross section between canaliculus and osteocyte process calculated as: $A=\left(Ca.R{d}^2-CP.R{d}^2\right)\pi$
$k_{p,\text{eff}}$	1.53 × 10−17 m2	Permeability of a canaliculus (Weinbaum et al. 1994)
$K$	465 µm−1	Shear stress constant (Weinbaum et al. 1994)
$\dot{ϵ}$	0.015 s−1	Volumetric strain rate value corresponds to peak strain rate during exercise (Al Nazer et al. 2012; Lanyon et al. 1975; Milgrom et al. 2002)
$V_i^{\text{lacuna}}$	350 µm3	Lacunar volume (Carter et al. 2013; Dong et al. 2014)