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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 39: Flow-Induced Structures in Complex Fluids (joint session CPP/ DRG, Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft/ DY)

DY 39.8: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 17:15–17:30, C 264

Red blood cells in intimate contact — •Achim Guckenberger and Stephan Gekle — Biofluid Simulation and Modeling, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Red blood cells in confined flow exhibit an effective hydrodynamic attraction: At low volume fractions, they tend to form pairs of cells (clusters). Understanding this effect is important for designing microfluidic devices. Furthermore, agglomeration of erythrocytes plays a major role in biological processes ranging from clotting to cardiovascular diseases. We study this phenomenon with the help of a three-dimensional periodic boundary integral method for various parameter sets. Amongst other things, the cell to cell distance is found to depend on the channel geometry and the flow rate. However, it is independent of the initial configuration of the cells.