Simulation of Red Blood Cell Tank-Treading Motion in Shear Flow [9 seconds]
Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) simulation of red blood cell tank-treading motion in shear flow. A two-dimensional network of interacting DPD particles is embedded in a three-dimensional closed surface to represent the membrane. The deformation characteristics of the RBC membrane are obtained by incorporating the effects of spontaneous curvature of the lipid bilayers material, structural relaxation of the in-plane shear energy, and geometrical constraints of fixed surface area and fixed enclosed volume.
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, as part of the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group’s (IMAG) Multiscale Modeling Initiative. This initiative is administered by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), a part of the National Institutes of Health.
