There is considerable interest in preparing cell‐sized giant unilamellar vesicles from natural
or nonnatural amphiphiles because a giant vesicle membrane resembles the self‐closed …

This article reviews the mechanical behavior of a capsule under the influence of viscous
deforming forces due to a flowing fluid. It focuses on artificial capsules and vesicles with an …

The dynamics of fluid vesicles and red blood cells (RBCs) in cylindrical capillary flow is
studied by using a three-dimensional mesoscopic simulation approach. As flow velocity …

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 …

Cross-streamline noninertial migration of a vesicle in a bounded Poiseuille flow is
investigated experimentally and numerically. The combined effects of the walls and of the …

The rheology of suspensions of soft particles, such as red blood cells, is a long-standing
problem in science and engineering due to the complex interplay between deformable …

The migration of a suspended vesicle in an unbounded Poiseuille flow is investigated
numerically in the low Reynolds number limit. We consider the situation without viscosity …

We review the dynamical behavior of giant fluid vesicles in various types of external
hydrodynamic flow. The interplay between stresses arising from membrane elasticity …

Blood microcirculation critically depends on the migration of red cells towards the flow
centerline. We identify theoretically the ratio of the inner over the outer fluid viscosities λ as a …

Soft bodies flowing in a channel often exhibit parachutelike shapes usually attributed to an
increase of hydrodynamic constraint (viscous stress and/or confinement). We show that the …