A hundred red blood cells in a microchannel:
100 red blood cells in a microchannel:
- The length of the channel is 100 microns and its height is 50 microns.
- The flow is periodic in the horizontal direction.
- The averaged speed is 1.666 cm/sec when there is no cells.
- The diameter of cells = 7.65 microns and the thickness of cells = 1.986 microns.
- The hematocrit (Hct) is 23.69%.
- The density of fluid is 1 and the viscosity of the fluid is 0.012.
- The mesh size for the velocity field is 1/32.
- The mesh size for the pressure = 1/16.
- The time step=0.00001 ms.
- The averaged speed at t=60 ms in the channel is 1.068 cm/sec (Re=0.445).
- The averaged shear rate on the wall at t= 60 ms is 1996/sec and the capillary number is 1.815.
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