Recent developments of meshfree and particle methods and their applications in applied
mechanics are surveyed. Three major methodologies have been reviewed. First, smoothed …

Facial movements support a variety of functions in human behavior. They participate in
automatic somatic and visceral motor programs, they are essential in producing …

Meshfree Particle Methods is a comprehensive and systematic exposition of particle
methods, meshfree Galerkin and partitition of unity methods, molecular dynamics methods …

As the predominant cell type in blood, red blood cells (RBC s) and their biomechanical
properties largely determine the rheological and hemodynamic behavior of blood in normal …

The purpose of this study is mainly directed towards present of viewpoints on critical and
commentary analysis on blood rheology, blood viscosity models, and physiological flow …

Many arenas of research are rapidly advancing due to a combined effort between
engineering and science. In some cases, fields of research that were stagnating under the …

The aggregation of red blood cells (RBC) induced by the interactions between RBCs is a
dominant factor of the in vitro rheological properties of blood, and existing models of blood …

Nanotechnology is a progressive research and development topic with large amounts of
venture capital and government funding being invested worldwide. Nano mechanics, in …

This paper summarizes the newly developed immersed finite element method (IFEM) and its
applications to the modeling of biological systems. This work was inspired by the pioneering …

Particle-based methods have been increasingly attractive for solving biofluid flow problems,
because of the ease and flexibility in modeling complex structure fluids afforded by the …