Fluid-Solid Coupling Simulation of Wall Fluid Shear Stress on Cells under Gradient Fluid Flow

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Establishment of gradient parallel plate flow chamber and FE model. (a) Photo of custom-made gradient flow chamber, in which the arrow represents the direction of FSS gradient. Schematics of gradient flow chamber in cross-sectional view (b) and side view (c). (d) FE mesh indicated by the blue box in (a). (e) FE mesh around a cell indicated by the green box in (d). (f) FE mesh of the cell indicated by the yellow box in (e).

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