Hemodynamic Effect of Unequal Anterior Cerebral Artery Flow Rates on the Anterior Communicating Artery Bifurcation: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study

Figure 2

(a) ACA-ACOM geometry with 45 degree bifurcation angles. (b) Pulse waveform given by (3). The global maximum occurring at 0.45 𝑡/𝑇 will define the transition between the systolic and diastolic phases of the flow waveform.

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