Lattice-Boltzmann modelling for inertial particle microfluidics applications-a tutorial review

B Owen, K Kechagidis, SR Bazaz… - … in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Inertial particle microfluidics (IPMF) is an emerging technology for the manipulation and
separation of microparticles and biological cells. Since the flow physics of IPMF is complex …

The influence of red blood cell deformability on hematocrit profiles and platelet margination

B Czaja, M Gutierrez, G Závodszky… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The influence of red blood cell (RBC) deformability in whole blood on platelet margination is
investigated using confocal microscopy measurements of flowing human blood and cell …

The effect of stiffened diabetic red blood cells on wall shear stress in a reconstructed 3D microaneurysm

B Czaja, J de Bouter, M Heisler… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Blood flow within the vasculature of the retina has been found to influence the progression of
diabetic retinopathy. In this research cell resolved blood flow simulations are used to study …

Red blood cell and platelet diffusivity and margination in the presence of cross-stream gradients in blood flows

G Závodszky, B van Rooij, B Czaja, V Azizi… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The radial distribution of cells in blood flow inside vessels is highly non-homogeneous. This
leads to numerous important properties of blood, yet the mechanisms shaping these …

The effect of deformability on the microscale flow behavior of red blood cell suspensions

A Passos, JM Sherwood, E Kaliviotis, R Agrawal… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is important for tissue perfusion and a key determinant of
blood rheology. Diseases such as diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and malaria, as well as …

Effect of cytosol viscosity on the flow behavior of red blood cell suspensions in microvessels

W Chien, G Gompper, DA Fedosov - Microcirculation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The flow behavior of blood is strongly affected by red blood cell (RBC) properties,
such as the viscosity ratio C between cytosol and suspending medium, which can …

Interplay of deformability and adhesion on localization of elastic micro-particles in blood flow

H Ye, Z Shen, Y Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
The margination and adhesion of micro-particles (MPs) have been extensively investigated
separately, due to their important applications in the biomedical field. However, the cascade …

Effect of micro-vessel stenosis severity and hematocrit level on red blood cell dynamics and platelet margination: A numerical study

A Elhanafy, Y Abuouf, S Elsagheer, S Ookawara… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding many micro-vascular diseases is aided by examining the dynamical
behavior of blood cells. For instance, micro-vascular stenosis significantly influences the …

Numerical simulation of cellular blood flow in curved micro-vessels with saccular aneurysms: Effect of curvature degree and hematocrit level

A Elhanafy, S Elsagheer, S Ookawara, S Nada - Biomicrofluidics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of cellular blood flow in curved vessels considerably differ from those in
straight vessels. It is reported that clotting development is significantly affected by vessel …

Lingering dynamics of type 2 diabetes mellitus red blood cells in retinal arteriolar bifurcations

L Long, H Chen, Y He, L Mu, Y Luan - Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
It has been proven that the deformability of red blood cells (RBC) is reduced owing to
changes in mechanical properties, such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension. To probe the …