Our results support the hypothesis that a high amount of helicity is instrumental in suppressing flow disturbances. Our findings could also have clinical implications, because reliable bulk flow features can be measured in vivo while wall shear stress measurements still suffer from limitations. In the future, robust prediction of disturbed shear by surrogate markers such as helicity-based bulk flow descriptors, or their geometric surrogates, might offer a practical way to overcome in vivo wall shear stress measurement limitations, opening opportunities for large scale in vivo studies.
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