Cell membranes are vital to shield a cell's interior from the environment. At the same time
they determine to a large extent the cell's mechanical resistance to external forces. In recent …

Myocardial contractility and blood flow provide essential mechanical cues for the
morphogenesis of the heart. In general, endothelial cells change their migratory behavior in …

In order to figure out whether red blood cell (RBC) aggregation is beneficial or deleterious
for the blood flow through a stenosis, fluid mechanics of a microvascular stenosis was …

Dynamics and rheology of a confined suspension of vesicles (a model for red blood cells)
are studied numerically in two dimensions by using an immersed boundary lattice …

Microfluidic systems consisting of a square microchannel with an orthogonal side branch are
promising tools to enrich or sort suspensions of deformable capsules. To allow their …

Three-dimensional simulations of the ordering of elastic capsule suspensions within planar
Poiseuille flow channels are reported. The simulations utilize the immersed boundary …

The mechanism of hydrodynamics-induced pairing of soft particles, namely closed bilayer
membranes (vesicles, a model system for red blood cells) and drops, is studied numerically …

A train of red blood cells flowing in a round tube will either advect steadily or break down
into a complex and irregular flow, depending upon its degree of confinement. We analyze …

We analyze the stability of a capsule in large-amplitude oscillatory extensional (LAOE) flow,
as often used to study the rheology and dynamics of suspensions. Such a flow is typically …

The flow of red blood cells within cylindrical vessels is complex and irregular, so long as the
vessel diameter is somewhat larger than the nominal cell size. Long-time-series simulations …