Research Article

Dissipative Coupling of Fluid and Immersed Objects for Modelling of Cells in Flow

Table 2

The dimensions of 6 ellipsoids used to verify the hypothesis. The friction coefficient is recalculated by (14).

EllipsoidTypeNodea ()b ()S ()

1Oblate59431.578.050.75
2Oblate13041113.924.14
3Oblate102661.5256.320.79
4Prolate13058.75479.508.50
5Prolate62234.5152.261.00
6Prolate986610.5690.481.34