Why do red blood cells have asymmetric shapes even in a symmetric flow?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Kaoui, Badr ^a,b   Biros, George ^c   Misbah, Chaouqi ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Université Hassan II de Casablanca   (Morocco)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CYTOLOGY;

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FLOW EFFICIENCY; MEMBRANE RIGIDITY; MODEL SYSTEM; RED BLOOD CELL; SYMMETRIC FLOW; VELOCITY DIFFERENCE;

CELLS;

EID: 70350504152     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.188101     Document Type: Article

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