TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of cell shape on local hydrodynamic environment
AU - Fu, Yi
AU - Fang, Ying
AU - Wu, Jianhua
AU - Dong, Cheng
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Cell adhesion is very important for various biological phenomena in blood flow. Cells would deform to resist the hydrodynamic forces on the blood vessel wall, which results in local flow environment change due to the disturbance of adherent cells. In this paper, computational fluid dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the effect of cell shape on local hydrodynamic environment in details. We found that under a flow condition 73 l/min, cell shape would more affect the flow in one cell height region. Moreover, cell length, the position of cell top and cell shape curvature may also affect the local hydrodynamic environment as well as the drag forces differently.
AB - Cell adhesion is very important for various biological phenomena in blood flow. Cells would deform to resist the hydrodynamic forces on the blood vessel wall, which results in local flow environment change due to the disturbance of adherent cells. In this paper, computational fluid dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the effect of cell shape on local hydrodynamic environment in details. We found that under a flow condition 73 l/min, cell shape would more affect the flow in one cell height region. Moreover, cell length, the position of cell top and cell shape curvature may also affect the local hydrodynamic environment as well as the drag forces differently.
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U2 - 10.1109/ITiME.2011.6130895
DO - 10.1109/ITiME.2011.6130895
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863055574
SN - 9781612847023
T3 - ITME 2011 - Proceedings: 2011 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education
SP - 540
EP - 543
BT - ITME 2011 - Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education, ITME 2011
Y2 - 9 December 2011 through 11 December 2011
ER -