Motion and deformation of elastic capsules and vesicles in flow

D Barthes-Biesel - Annual Review of fluid mechanics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Modeling the motion of capsules in flow

D Barthès-Biesel - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2011 - Elsevier
This review presents the mechanical behavior of a capsule under the influence of viscous
deforming forces due to a flowing fluid. We focus on artificial capsules that are initially …

Flow of a spherical capsule in a pore with circular or square cross-section

XQ Hu, AV Salsac, D Barthès-Biesel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
The motion and deformation of a spherical elastic capsule freely flowing in a pore of
comparable dimension is studied. The thin capsule membrane has a neo-Hookean shear …

Flow of artificial microcapsules in microfluidic channels: a method for determining the elastic properties of the membrane

Y Lefebvre, E Leclerc, D Barthès-Biesel, J Walter… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The paper deals with a method to characterize the membrane mechanical properties of
microcapsules. The technique consists in flowing microcapsules into a microchannel of …

Deformation behaviour of soft particles: a review

KK Liu - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of soft particle deformation is of paramount importance for the advancement of
fundamental colloidal science as well as its biomedical applications, particularly in drug …

Experimental investigation of a bioartificial capsule flowing in a narrow tube

F Risso, F CollÉ-Paillot, M Zagzoule - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2006 - cambridge.org
This work is an experimental study of the motion and deformation of a bioartificial capsule
flowing in a tube of 4 mm diameter. The capsules, initially designed for medical applications …

Mechanical characterization of cross-linked serum albumin microcapsules

C De Loubens, J Deschamps, M Georgelin, A Charrier… - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlling the deformation of microcapsules and capsules is essential in numerous
biomedical applications. The mechanical properties of the membrane of microcapsules …

Motion of a spherical capsule in branched tube flow with finite inertia

Z Wang, Y Sui, AV Salsac, D Barthès-Biesel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We computationally study the transient motion of an initially spherical capsule flowing
through a right-angled tube bifurcation, composed of tubes having the same diameter. The …

Deformation of liquid-filled calcium alginate capsules in a spinning drop apparatus

S Leick, S Henning, P Degen, D Suter… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the mechanical properties of thin-walled, liquid-filled calcium alginate
capsules by measuring the deformation of these particles in a spinning drop apparatus. By …

Determination of the elastic properties of single microcapsules using micromanipulation and finite element modeling

R Mercadé-Prieto, B Nguyen, R Allen, D York… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
Finite element modeling (FEM) has been used to simulate the compression of single elastic
core–shell capsules between two parallel plates. FEM allows characterizing the …