This benchmark investigates a steady flow in a section of a human carotid artery. There exists no analytical solution for this problem: far from it, the benchmark reproduces the characteristics of a typical production environment. The geometry of the artery is provided in form of a generic surface mesh, and inlet/outlet conditions are obtained from a semi-analytical description of the full human arterial system. The problem is simulated with Palabos and with AnSys(R) CFX, and the benchmark includes a grid convergence study, and comparison of point-wise and integral quantities. With the large amount of provided accurate data, this is an ideal benchmark for validation of your own CFD code on a non-trivial problem.