Two-dimensional lattice Boltzmann study of red blood cell motion through microvascular bifurcation: Cell deformability and suspending viscosity effects

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 575-583

  Xiong, Wenjuan ^a   Zhang, Junfeng ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bifurcated microvessels; Blood flow; Erythrocyte; Hemodynamics; Immersed boundary method; Lattice Boltzmann method; Microcirculation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYTOLOGY; DEFORMATION; FLOW RATE; KINETIC THEORY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROCIRCULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; RIGIDITY; TRAJECTORIES; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

BIFURCATED MICROVESSEL; BLOOD FLOW; CELL DEFORMABILITY; CELL MOTION; ERYTHROCYTE; HAEMODYNAMICS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MICROVESSELS; RED BLOOD CELL;

CELLS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL SHAPE; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL SHAPE; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84861100461     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-011-0334-y     Document Type: Article

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