Table 1.

Material properties assigned to the individual geometries.

Geometry	Material	Density	Elastic stiffness (MPa)	Poisson’s ratio	Source ref.
Leaflets	0.5% MWNT TPU	1150	40.0	0.45	Rozeik et al.15
Stent	Stainless steel	7850	2.0 × 105	0.3	Ansys lib.
Arterial wall	Aorta	1000	0.5	0.49	Kaiser et al.20
Blood*	Blood	1060	1.32 × 103	0.49	Kunzelman et al.21

^*Bulk modulus reduced to 22 MPa to reduce computational costs. This is similar to values used in literature.^21,22