Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Due to the potential impact on the diagnosis and treatment of various cardiovascular
diseases, work on the rheology of blood has significantly expanded in the last decade, both …

Immotile cilia at the ventral node of mouse embryos are required for sensing leftward fluid
flow that breaks left-right symmetry of the body. However, the flow-sensing mechanism has …

The aggregation of red blood cells (RBC) induced by the interactions between RBCs is a
dominant factor of the in vitro rheological properties of blood, and existing models of blood …

Computational modeling of blood flow in microvessels with internal diameter 20–500μm is a
major challenge. It is because blood in such vessels behaves as a multiphase suspension of …

We simulate the cross-flow migration of rigid particles such as platelets in a red blood cell
(RBC) suspension using the Stokes flow boundary integral equation method. Two types of …

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 …

The measurement of cell stiffness is an important part of biological research with diverse
applications in biology, biotechnology and medicine. Real-time deformability cytometry (RT …

The dynamics of vesicles under a shear flow are analyzed analytically in the small
deformation regime. We derive two coupled nonlinear equations which describe the vesicle …

A spectral boundary integral method for simulating large numbers of blood cells flowing in
complex geometries is developed and demonstrated. The blood cells are modeled as finite …