Multiscale modeling of blood flow: From single cells to blood rheology

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 239-258

  Fedosov, Dmitry A ^a   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^b   Gompper, Gerhard ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood rheology; Capillary flow; Discocyte, parachute, and slipper shapes; Dissipative particle dynamics; Microvessels; Multiparticle collision dynamics; Red blood cell; Shear thinning

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; SHEAR FLOW;

BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; DISCOCYTE; DISCOCYTE, PARACHUTE, AND SLIPPER SHAPE; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; MICROVESSELS; MULTI-PARTICLE COLLISION DYNAMICS; RED BLOOD CELL; SHEAR-THINNING;

SHEAR THINNING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEUKOCYTE; MICROVASCULATURE; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIPARTICLE COLLISION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; THROMBOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISCOSITY;

BLOOD; BLOOD PLATELETS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84897543206     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-013-0497-9     Document Type: Article

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