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

Table 4

Maximum and minimum wall shear stress at peak systolic and peak diastolic instants for different values of 𝛼 and for Profile I.

Time steps	Parameters	Womersley number
		𝛼=4	𝛼=7.5	𝛼=12.5
Peak systolic; 𝑡/𝑇=0.20	𝜏max (Pa)	91.89	93.78	91.90
	𝜏min (Pa)	−5.75	−22.04	−16.28
Peak diastolic; 𝑡/𝑇=0.67	𝜏max (Pa)	50.83	50.64	50.64
	𝜏min (Pa)	−2.11	−6.11	−5.65