Research Article

Structure-Induced Dynamics of Erythrocyte Aggregates by Microscale Simulation

Figure 4

Motion and dissociation of a four-cell erythrocyte aggregate in a 8  m stenotic channel at time instants (a)  ms; (b)  ms; (c)  ms; and (d)  ms. Velocity vectors (a1-d1) and axial velocity magnitude contours (cm/s) (a2-d2) are presented. The initial configuration for the aggregate is shown in Figure 1(c), and the aggregate is horizontally placed in the channel initially. The parameters used are μJ/ ,  Nm.
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