Large scale simulation of red blood cell aggregation in shear flows

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1810-1817

  Xu, Dong ^a   Kaliviotis, Efstathios ^b   Munjiza, Ante ^c   Avital, Eldad ^c   Ji, Chunning ^a   Williams, John ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Aggregation; Immersed boundary method; Numerical simulation; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

FLUID SOLID INTERACTION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HUMAN CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS; RED BLOOD CELL; RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ADHESION; AGGLOMERATION; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEMODYNAMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW;

SHEAR DEFORMATION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CELL ADHESION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FLOW RATE; FLUID SOLID INTERACTION; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATION; SOLID; VISCOSITY;

ADHESION; AGGREGATION; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RED BLOOD CELLS;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84880037956     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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