Date of download: 10/7/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: The Deformation Behavior of Multiple Red Blood Cells in a Capillary Vessel J Biomech Eng. 2009;131(7):074504-074504-5. doi:10.1115/1.3127255 Figure Legend: The time evolution of the cross section of a red blood cell in a simple shear flow (the dimensionless numbers for this calculation are Cb=μoutγa/B=0.15, CC=μoutγa/C=0.01, and Cb=μoutγa3/kb=10.0, where a is the equivalent radius of the cell, B is the shear coefficient, C is the surface dilation coefficient, kb is the bending rigidity, γ is the shear rate in the flow, which is set as 875 (1/s) for the this calculation, and 1/γ is used as the time scale; the viscosity ratio between inside and outside the red blood cell μin/μout=5.0; the size of the computational domain is set to 8a×8a×8a and the number of grid points is 80×80×80. More details were shown in our previous study for the deformation behavior of vesicles in a linear shear flow ).

Date of download: 10/7/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: The Deformation Behavior of Multiple Red Blood Cells in a Capillary Vessel J Biomech Eng. 2009;131(7):074504-074504-5. doi:10.1115/1.3127255 Figure Legend: The time evolution of the cross section of a pair of red blood cells in the capillary flow with 10 red blood cells: (a) the red blood cells were distributed symmetrically at initial stage; (b) the red blood cells were distributed asymmetrically at initial stage; dsym,0 and dasym,0 are the projected diameters that the red blood cell pair initially took in the capillary; dsym and dasym are the projected diameters of the pair at a developed stage when t=16.0)

Date of download: 10/7/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: The Deformation Behavior of Multiple Red Blood Cells in a Capillary Vessel J Biomech Eng. 2009;131(7):074504-074504-5. doi:10.1115/1.3127255 Figure Legend: The deformed profile of the red blood cells with different membrane properties (the solid line shows the deformation when shear coefficient B=1.7×10−6 N/m, surface dilation coefficient C=1.0×10−4 N/m; the dashed line shows when B increases about 2.5 times to B=4.2×10−6 N/m; the dashed-dotted line shows when C increases 10 times to C=1.0×10−3 N/m)

Date of download: 10/7/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: The Deformation Behavior of Multiple Red Blood Cells in a Capillary Vessel J Biomech Eng. 2009;131(7):074504-074504-5. doi:10.1115/1.3127255 Figure Legend: The distribution of the time-averaged axial velocity on the cross section of the capillary flow (the dash-dot-dot line stands for the analytical solution of Poiseuille flow without red blood cells, the solid and dash lines stand for the simulation results in the capillary flow with ten red blood cells; for the case shown with solid line, the shear coefficient of the membrane B=1.7×10−6 N/m, which referred to the experiment of Chien , and for the dash line B=4.2×10−6 N/m referred to Ref. )