Non-Convex Particle-in-Cell Model for the Mathematical Study of the Microscopic Blood Flow

H Maria, E Protopapas - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The field of fluid mechanics was further explored through the use of a particle-in-cell model
for the mathematical study of the Stokes axisymmetric flow through a swarm of erythrocytes …

[HTML][HTML] A mathematical model for studying the Red Blood Cell magnetic susceptibility

E Protopapas, P Vafeas, M Hadjinicolaou - Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2025 - Elsevier
The susceptibility of the human Red Blood Cells (RBCs) under the action of magnetic fields,
either serves as a biomarker in medical tests, eg. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nuclear …

Boundary Element Method for Viscous Flow through Out-phase Slip-patterned Microchannel under the Influence of Inclined Magnetic Field

V Chhabra, CS Nishad, M Sahni - Chemical Product and Process …, 2024 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we investigate the impact of an inclined magnetic field of uniform intensity on
viscous, incompressible pressure-driven Stokes flow through a slip-patterned, rectangular …

A microscale mathematical blood flow model for understanding cardiovascular diseases

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - GeNeDis 2018: Computational Biology …, 2020 - Springer
The blood plasma flow through a swarm of red blood cells in capillaries is modeled as an
axisymmetric Stokes flow within inverted prolate spheroidal solid-fluid unitary cells. The solid …

Spectral decomposition of the Stokes flow operators in the inverted prolate spheroidal coordinates

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - IMA Journal of Applied …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The eigenfunctions of the axisymmetric Stokes flow operator in the inverted prolate
spheroidal system of coordinates are derived analytically, while an analytical method for the …

Translation of two aggregated low-density lipoproteins within blood plasma: a mathematical model

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - GeNeDis 2014: Computational Biology …, 2015 - Springer
Arteriosclerosis is a disease in which the artery walls get thicker and harder. Atherosclerosis
is a specific form of arteriosclerosis which allows less blood to travel through the artery and …

Mathematical Study of the Perturbation of Magnetic Fields Caused by Erythrocytes

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - Worldwide Congress on “Genetics …, 2022 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is the mathematical study of the perturbation of a homogeneous
static magnetic field caused by the embedding of a red blood cell. Analytical expressions for …

Eigenfunction expansions for the Stokes flow operators in the inverted oblate coordinate system

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - Mathematical Problems in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
When studying axisymmetric particle fluid flows, a scalar function, ψ, is usually employed,
which is called a stream function. It serves as a velocity potential and it can be used for the …

[HTML][HTML] Separability of stokes equations in axisymmetric geometries

M Hadjinicolaou, E Protopapas - Journal of Applied Mathematics and …, 2020 - scirp.org
For Stokes flow in non spherical geometries, when separation of variables fails to derive
closed form solutions in a simple product form, analytical solutions can still be obtained in an …

Stream function derivation for the steady axisymmetric viscous flow in toroidal geometry

M Hadjinicolaou, G Kinakis - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When studying problems of axisymmetric fluid flows, a scalar function, is usually employed,
namely a stream function through which, the vector velocity function can be derived. The …