The rheology of dense red blood cell suspensions is investigated via computer simulations based on the lattice Boltzmann, the immersed boundary, and the finite element methods. The red blood cells are treated as extended and deformable particles immersed in the ambient fluid. In the first part of the work, the numerical model and strategies for stress evaluation are discussed. In the second part, the behavior of the suspensions in simple shear flow is studied for different volume ...
قائمة المحتويات
Complex fluids and their rheology.- Physics of red blood cells and hemorheology.- Numerical model for simulations of red blood cell suspensions.- Physical consider...
عن المؤلف
Timm Krüger is physicist with focus on computational modeling of complex fluids at the Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology.