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Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng. 2021 Jun 17;384:113960. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2021.113960

Table 3:

TV chordae tendineae input parameters.

Chordae parameter description	Parameter range
Papillary locations (vertical from annulus) [cm]	$- 2.0 \leq {r_{1}^{SL}, r_{1}^{AS}, r_{1}^{PS}, r_{1}^{AP}} \leq - 1.5$
Papillary locations (normal to annulus) [cm]	$- 0.6 \leq {r_{2}^{SL}, r_{2}^{AS}, r_{2}^{PS}, r_{2}^{AP}} \leq - 0.2$
Papillary locations (tangent to annulus) [cm]	$- 0.4 \leq {r_{3}^{SL}, r_{3}^{AS}, r_{3}^{PS}, r_{3}^{AP}} \leq 0.4$
Spacing (within each chordae group) [-]	0.025 ≤ {d^SL, d^AS, d^PS, d^AP} ≤ 0.05
Number (per chordae group) [-]	{N^SL, N^AS, N^PS, N^AP} ∈ {2,3,4}
Arc length (added to straight chordae) [cm]	0.0 ≤ {L^SL, L^AS, L^PS, L^AP} ≤ 0.3
Free edge offsets (outer two chordae in each group) [-]	0.9 ≤ {s^SL, s^AS, s^PS, s^AP} ≤ 1