The microcirculation is an extensive network of microvessels that distributes blood flow
throughout living tissues. Reynolds numbers are much less than 1, and the equations of …

Focusing and sorting cells and particles utilizing microfluidic phenomena have been
flourishing areas of development in recent years. These processes are largely beneficial in …

Mesoscale simulations of blood flow, where the red blood cells are described as deformable
closed shells with a membrane characterized by bending rigidity and stretching elasticity …

Understanding why red blood cells (RBCs) move with an asymmetric shape (slipperlike
shape) in small blood vessels is a long-standing puzzle in blood circulatory research. By …

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 …

A large number of nanoparticles (NPs) have been raised for diverse biomedical applications
and some of them have shown great potential in treatment and imaging of diseases. Design …

We develop a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model to simulate the dynamics of
multicomponent vesicles. The model accounts for bending stiffness, spontaneous curvature …

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 …

Hydrodynamic lift forces acting on cells and particles in fluid flow receive ongoing attention
from medicine, mathematics, physics and engineering. The early findings of Fåhræus & …