Meshfree and particle methods in biomechanics: Prospects and challenges

LW Zhang, AS Ademiloye, KM Liew - Archives of Computational Methods …, 2019 - Springer
The use of meshfree and particle methods in the field of bioengineering and biomechanics
has significantly increased. This may be attributed to their unique abilities to overcome most …

A theory of enzyme chemotaxis: from experiments to modeling

F Mohajerani, X Zhao, A Somasundar, D Velegol… - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enzymes show two distinct transport behaviors in the presence of their substrates in
solution. First, their diffusivity enhances with an increasing substrate concentration. In …

Strain and plastic composite support (PCS) selection for vitamin K (Menaquinone-7) production in biofilm reactors

E Mahdinia, A Demirci, A Berenjian - NABEC Papers, 2004 - elibrary.asabe.org
Menaquinone-7 (MK-7), a subtype of vitamin K, has received a significant attention due to its
effect on improving bone and cardiovascular health. Current fermentation strategies, which …

Individual and interaction effects of operating parameters on the photocatalytic degradation under visible light illumination: Response surface methodological …

M Feilizadeh, M Rahimi, SME Zakeri… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, for the first time a statistical analysis based on the response surface
methodology (RSM) was employed to investigate individual and interaction effects of key …

An accurate and stable alternating directional moving particle semi-implicit method for incompressible flow simulation

D Li, H Zhang, H Yao - Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
As a Lagrangian mesh free method, Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method can easily
handle complex incompressible flow with free surface. However, some deficiencies of MPS …

A free-surface particle regularization scheme based on numerical integration for particle methods

Q Liu, G Duan, T Matsunaga, S Koshizuka… - … Analysis with Boundary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Particle shifting model plays a significant role in regularizing particle distribution in high-
order accuracy Lagrangian particles methods. However, due to the incomplete neighbouring …

Atomistic–continuum model for probing the biomechanical properties of human erythrocyte membrane under extreme conditions

AS Ademiloye, LW Zhang, KM Liew - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
A precise first attempt is performed to quantify the biomechanical properties of human
erythrocyte membrane subjects to extreme temperature and loading conditions. An …

MR-WC-MPS: A multi-resolution WC-MPS method for simulation of free-surface flows

MA Nabian, L Farhadi - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
A Multi-Resolution Weakly Compressible Moving-Particle Semi-Implicit (MR-WC-MPS)
method is presented in this paper for simulation of free-surface flows. To reduce the …

A study on thrombus influenced red blood cell flow in microvasculature using moving particle semi-implicit method

ZX Wang, J Guan, L Chen, WQ Tao - International Journal of Heat and Fluid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microvasculature plays a decisive role on the normal operation of the human body. Previous
studies have shown that the causes of microvascular hemolytic anemia and other diseases …

Computation of a three-dimensional flow in a square microchannel: a comparison between a particle method and a finite volume method

D Bento, R Lima, J M. Miranda - Micro and Nanosystems, 2015 - benthamdirect.com
Traditional grid-based numerical methods, such as finite volume method (FVM), are not
suitable to simulate multiphase biofluids (such as blood) at the microscale level …