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On connecting large vessels to small. The meaning of Murray's law.
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A large part of the branching vasculature of the mammalian circulatory and respiratory systems obeys Murray's law, which states that the cube of the radius of a parent vessel equals the sum of the cubes of the radii of the daughters. Where this law is obeyed, a functional relationship exists between vessel radius and volumetric flow, average linear velocity of flow, velocity profile, vessel-wall shear stress, Reynolds number, and pressure gradient in individual vessels. In homogeneous, full-flow sets of vessels, a relation is also established between vessel radius and the conductance, resistance, and cross-sectional area of a full-flow set.
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- Authors
- Sherman, T. F.
- Venue
- The Journal of general physiology
- Publisher
- Rockefeller University Press
- Published
- 1981-10-01
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 431-453
- ISSN
- 0022-1295 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-7748
- OpenAlex
- W2152825691
- Cited by
- 656
- References
- 37
- FWCI
- 3.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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