Numerical Accuracy Comparison of Two Boundary Conditions Commonly used to Approximate Shear Stress Distributions in Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Cultured under Flow Perfusion

Olufemi E. Kadri, Cortes Williams, Vassilios Sikavitsas +1

Flow-induced shear stresses have been found to be a stimulatory factor in pre-osteoblastic cells seeded in 3D porous scaffolds and cultured under continuous flow perfusion. However…