Red blood cell flow in the cardiovascular system: A fluid dynamics perspective

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 427-440

  AlMomani, Thakir D ^a   Vigmostad, Sarah C ^b   Chivukula, Venkat Keshav ^b   Al zube, Loay ^a   Smadi, Othman ^a   BaniHani, Suleiman ^a  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Experiments; Membrane; Motion; Numerical computations; Red blood cells (RBCs)

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ASSISTIVE DEVICES; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FLOW CONDITION; MOTION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL FLOW; RED BLOOD CELL;

BLOOD; CELLS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; MEMBRANES; PHYSIOLOGY;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW RATE; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROPIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 84872728087     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v40.i5.30     Document Type: Article

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