Effect of Pulsatile Flow Waveform and Womersley Number on the Flow in Stenosed Arterial Geometry

Table 3

Maximum and minimum wall shear stress at different time instants for different pulsatile flow waveform when 𝛼=4.

Pulsatile waveform	Time steps	Wall shear stress
		𝜏max (Pa)	𝜏min (Pa)
Profile I	𝑡/𝑇=0.25	84.07	−4.05
	𝑡/𝑇=0.50	21.12	−0.73
	𝑡/𝑇=0.75	43.43	−1.73
	𝑡/𝑇=1.0	8.57	−0.302
Profile II	𝑡/𝑇=0.25	102.28	−4.43
	𝑡/𝑇=0.50	5.75	−1.44
	𝑡/𝑇=0.75	38.34	−1.59
	𝑡/𝑇=1.0	7.42	−0.262
Profile III	𝑡/𝑇=0.25	80.86	−3.20
	𝑡/𝑇=0.50	37.54	−1.72
	𝑡/𝑇=0.75	−0.02	−0.37
	𝑡/𝑇=1.0	38.22	−1.46