Recent advances and emerging applications of the boundary element method

YJ Liu, S Mukherjee… - Applied …, 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, a workshop on the boundary element
method (BEM) was held on the campus of the University of Akron during September 1–3 …

Theory and algorithms to compute Helfrich bending forces: a review

A Guckenberger, S Gekle - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Equilibrium physics breakdown reveals the active nature of red blood cell flickering

H Turlier, DA Fedosov, B Audoly, T Auth, NS Gov… - Nature physics, 2016 - nature.com
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are seen to flicker under optical microscopy, a
phenomenon initially described as thermal fluctuations of the cell membrane. But recent …

Lipid bilayer and cytoskeletal interactions in a red blood cell

Z Peng, X Li, IV Pivkin, M Dao… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
We study the biomechanical interactions between the lipid bilayer and the cytoskeleton in a
red blood cell (RBC) by developing a general framework for mesoscopic simulations. We …

Modeling membrane curvature generation due to membrane–protein interactions

H Alimohamadi, P Rangamani - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
To alter and adjust the shape of the plasma membrane, cells harness various mechanisms
of curvature generation. Many of these curvature generation mechanisms rely on the …

Continuum-and particle-based modeling of shapes and dynamics of red blood cells in health and disease

X Li, PM Vlahovska, GE Karniadakis - Soft matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We review recent advances in multiscale modeling of the mechanics of healthy and
diseased red blood cells (RBCs), and blood flow in the microcirculation. We cover the …

Red blood cell shape transitions and dynamics in time-dependent capillary flows

SM Recktenwald, K Graessel, FM Maurer, T John… - Biophysical …, 2022 - cell.com
The dynamics of single red blood cells (RBCs) determine microvascular blood flow by
adapting their shape to the flow conditions in the narrow vessels. In this study, we explore …

A coarse-grained red blood cell membrane model to study stomatocyte-discocyte-echinocyte morphologies

NM Geekiyanage, MA Balanant, E Sauret, S Saha… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
An improved red blood cell (RBC) membrane model is developed based on the bilayer
coupling model (BCM) to accurately predict the complete sequence of stomatocyte-discocyte …

How the spleen reshapes and retains young and old red blood cells: A computational investigation

H Li, ZL Liu, L Lu, P Buffet… - PLoS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The spleen, the largest secondary lymphoid organ in humans, not only fulfils a broad range
of immune functions, but also plays an important role in red blood cell's (RBC) life cycle …

Single-cell characterization of deformation and dynamics of mesenchymal stem cells in microfluidic systems: A computational study

X Qi, S Ma, X Jiang, H Wu, J Zheng, S Wang, K Han… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Understanding the homing dynamics of individual mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in
physiologically relevant microenvironments is crucial for improving the efficacy of MSC …