Red blood cells in a microchannel with a constriction:
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Twelve red blood cells in a microchannel with a constriction:
- The length of the channel is 120 microns and its height is 30 microns.
- The flow is periodic in the horizontal direction.
- The height (resp. width) of the narrow part is 15 microns (resp., 40 microns).
- The diameter of cells = 7.65 microns and the thickness of cells = 1.986 microns.
- The density of fluid is 1 and the viscosity of the fluid is 0.012.
- The averaged speed at t=60 ms in the larger channel is 1.696 cm/sec (Re=0.424).
- The averaged speed at t=60 ms in the narrow channel is 3.333 cm/sec (Re=0.416).
- The histories of the mass centers of twelve cells are shown as follows:
