In small vessels blood is usually treated as a Newtonian fluid down to diameters of about
200 µm. We investigate the flow of red blood cell (RBC) suspensions driven through small …

In small vessels blood is usually treated as a Newtonian fluid down to diameters of
increases significantly towards the centreline. The dependence of shear stress on tube size …

Blood flow is usually treated as a Newtonian fluid down to diameters of about 200 μ m. We
employ the dissipative particle dynamics to simulate the flow of red blood cell suspensions …

Blood flow in tubes is widely considered to be Newtonian down to diameters of about 200
microns. We have employed a multi-scale, Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) model of the …

In the smallest capillaries, or in tubes with diameter D≲ 8 μm, flowing red blood cells are
well known to organize into single-file trains, with each cell deformed into an approximately …

The dynamics, shape, deformation, and orientation of red blood cells in microcirculation
affect the rheology, flow resistance and transport properties of whole blood. This leads to …

We analyze the rheology of dilute red blood cell suspensions in pressure driven flows at low
Reynolds number, in terms of the morphologies and elasticity of the cells. We focus on …

Blood is a dense suspension of flexible red blood cells. In response to a background flow,
these cells distribute themselves non-uniformly throughout the vessel. As a result, material …

A non‐Newtonian shear‐thinning constitutive relation is proposed to study pulsatile flow of
whole blood in a cylindrical tube. The constitutive relation, which satisfies the principle of …

Please cite this paper as: Fedosov, Caswell, Popel and Karniadakis (2010). Blood Flow and
Cell‐Free Layer in Microvessels. Microcirculation17 (8), 615–628. Abstract Blood is …