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About the Authors
- Diana C. de Oliveira
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Contributed equally to this work with: Diana C. de Oliveira, David G. Owen
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: DMC795@student.bham.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- David G. Owen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Diana C. de Oliveira, David G. Owen
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Shuang Qian
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Naomi C. Green
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Daniel M. Espino
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Duncan E. T. Shepherd
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Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Funding was provided to D. G.O., S.Q. and D.C.O. from D.M.E. and N.C.G. (P. I’s) grant through KIMAL PLC and the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account: IAA 2017 – Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to design novel tips for KIMAL PLC dialysis catheters (601018). Project number: 20520. KIMAL PLC manufacture/sell multiple type of dialysis catheters and were involved in the initial conception of the study but were not involved in the data collection or analysis nor drafting of the manuscript and decision to publish. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.