Effects of erythrocyte deformability and aggregation on the cell free layer and apparent viscosity of microscopic blood flows.

ABSTRACT: Concentrated erythrocyte (i.e., red blood cell) suspensions flowing in microchannels have been simulated with an immersed-boundary lattice Boltzmann algorithm, to examine the cell layer development process and the effects of cell deformability and aggregation on hemodynamic and hemorheological behaviors. The cells are modeled as two-dimensional deformable biconcave capsules and experimentally measured cell properties have been utilized. The aggregation among cells is modeled by a Morse potential. The flow development process demonstrates how red blood cells migrate away from the boundary toward the channel center, while the suspending plasma fluid is displaced to the cell free layer regions left by the migrating cells. Several important characteristics of microscopic blood flows observed e

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2917820 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature