Cell membranes are vital to shield a cell's interior from the environment. At the same time
they determine to a large extent the cell's mechanical resistance to external forces. In recent …

This work describes simulations of a red blood cell (RBC) in simple shear flow, focusing on
the dependence of the cell dynamics on the spontaneous curvature of the membrane. The …

One of the most challenging aspects in the accurate simulation of three-dimensional soft
objects such as vesicles or biological cells is the computation of membrane bending forces …

Red blood cell (RBC) disorders such as sickle cell disease affect billions worldwide. While
much attention focuses on altered properties of aberrant RBCs and corresponding …

In this paper, we present an immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann flux solver (IB-LBFS) to
simulate the interactions of viscous flow with deformable elastic structures, namely, two …

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of
synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized three-dimensional …

The dynamics of an initially ellipsoidal compound capsule in a simple shear flow is
investigated numerically using a three-dimensional front-tracking finite-difference model …

The dynamics of a capsule and a biological cell is of great interest in chemical engineering
and bioengineering. Although the dynamics of a rigid spheroid is well understood by …

The numerical simulation of the deformation of vesicle membranes under simple shear
external fluid flow is considered in this paper. A saddle-point approach is proposed for the …

We develop an algorithm for the three dimensional simulation of the dynamics of soft objects
(drops, capsules, vesicles) under creeping flow conditions. Loop elements are used to …