Numerical computation of mechanical deformation of a modelled endothelial cell;Calcul numérique de la déformation mécanique d'un modèle de cellule endothéliale

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIb: Mecanique

Volumn 328, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 633-638

  Waché, Pierre ^a   Wang, Xiong ^a   Maurice, Gérard ^a   Lucius, Michel ^a   Stoltz, Jean François ^a  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Deformation; Endothelial cell; Numerical computation; Periodic flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002431447     PISSN: 16207742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1620-7742(00)00009-x     Document Type: Article

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