Computational model of whole blood exhibiting lateral platelet motion induced by red blood cells

LM Crowl, AL Fogelson - International journal for numerical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An Immersed Boundary method is developed in which the fluid's motion is
calculated using the lattice Boltzmann method. The method is applied to explore the …

Analysis of mechanisms for platelet near-wall excess under arterial blood flow conditions

L Crowl, AL Fogelson - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2011 - cambridge.org
The concentration of platelets near the blood vessel wall is important because platelets
survey the condition of the vessel wall and respond to injuries to it. Under arterial flow …

Numerical simulation of red blood cell behavior in a stenosed arteriole using the immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann method

K Vahidkhah, N Fatouraee - International journal for numerical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Because of their deformability and tendency to form aggregates, red blood cells (RBCs)
immensely affect the hydrodynamic properties of blood flow in microcirculation. In this paper …

[HTML][HTML] Inflow and outflow boundary conditions for 2D suspension simulations with the immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann method

VWA Tarksalooyeh, G Závodszky, BJM van Rooij… - Computers & fluids, 2018 - Elsevier
In-and outflow boundary conditions for 2D immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann
suspension simulations, applied to cell based blood flow models, are presented. The inlet is …

Effects of erythrocyte deformability and aggregation on the cell free layer and apparent viscosity of microscopic blood flows

J Zhang, PC Johnson, AS Popel - Microvascular research, 2009 - Elsevier
Concentrated erythrocyte (ie, red blood cell) suspensions flowing in microchannels have
been simulated with an immersed-boundary lattice Boltzmann algorithm, to examine the cell …

Platelet motion near a vessel wall or thrombus surface in two-dimensional whole blood simulations

T Skorczewski, LC Erickson, AL Fogelson - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
Computational simulations using a two-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann immersed boundary
method were conducted to investigate the motion of platelets near a vessel wall and close to …

A lattice Boltzmann fictitious domain method for modeling red blood cell deformation and multiple‐cell hydrodynamic interactions in flow

X Shi, G Lin, J Zou, DA Fedosov - International Journal for …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
To model red blood cell (RBC) deformation and multiple‐cell interactions in flow, the
recently developed technique derived from the lattice Boltzmann method and the distributed …

A multi-component lattice Boltzmann scheme: towards the mesoscale simulation of blood flow

MM Dupin, I Halliday, CM Care - Medical engineering & physics, 2006 - Elsevier
While blood at the macroscopic scale is frequently treated as a continuum by techniques
such as computational fluid dynamics, its mesoscale behaviour is not so well investigated or …

Red blood cell aggregation and dissociation in shear flows simulated by lattice Boltzmann method

J Zhang, PC Johnson, AS Popel - Journal of biomechanics, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper we develop a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate red blood cell (RBC)
behavior in shear flows. The immersed boundary method is employed to incorporate the …

An immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann approach to simulate deformable liquid capsules and its application to microscopic blood flows

J Zhang, PC Johnson, AS Popel - Physical biology, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we develop an immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann approach to simulate
deformable capsules in flows. The lattice Boltzmann method is utilized to solve the …