Vesicles and red blood cells in shear flow.

Abkarian, Manouk; Viallat, Annie · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We describe the similarities and the specificities of the behaviour of individual soft particles, namely, drops, lipid vesicles and red blood cells subjected to a shear flow. We highlight that their motion depends in a non-trivial way on the particle mechanical properties. We detail the effect of the presence of a wall with or without wall-particle attractive interaction from a biological perspective.