Numerical simulation of red blood cell distributions in three-dimensional microvascular bifurcations

Microvascular Research

Volumn 97, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-123

  Hyakutake, Toru ^a   Nagai, Shinya ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immersed boundary method; Lattice Boltzmann method; Microvascular bifurcation; Numerical simulation; Red blood cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE KINETICS; FLUID MEMBRANE INTERACTION; GEOMETRY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MICROVASCULAR BIFURCATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION; SIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84918513220     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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