“…There were only few numerical studies that treated both CS and WSS simultaneously [5,[17][18][19][20]. It is worthy of note that most of previous studies were focused on the hemodynamics in the local districts, such as short segments of straight arteries [8,10,[13][14][15][16], bifurcations [5,[20][21][22], bendings [19], stenosis [23], and anastomoses [18], and emphases were laid on the influence of local geometry and local mechanical property of arterial walls on the local blood flow patterns, providing powerful local hemodynamic evidences to explain the high localization of artherosclerotic plaque. Nevertheless, most of these studies have ignored the effects of other parts of circulatory In physiological conditions in vivo, the blood pressure or the flow does not independently act but interacts with each other in the circulatory system, thus the wall shear stress induced by blood flow and the circumferential stress due to blood pressure will not independently, but interdependently, act on the arterial endothelium.…”