RBCFlowInRigidTube.m: Red blood cell motion and deformation inside of a rigid tube with varying cross-section.

• This code was developed for part of my dissertation to simulate red blood cell flow using boundary integral methods.
• This repository contains the code for the examples presented in Chapter 6 for simulating the red blood cell motion and deformation in a microcapillary with constriction.

Numerical examples

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Purely elastic membrane model

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Straight microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingElasRBC_Short_Pr4_2_Time0_75s.mp4

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Short constricted microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingElasRBC_RefCons_6mic_Pr8.mp4

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Long constricted microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingElasRBC_LongConVes_Pr8.mp4

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Viscoelastic membrane model

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Straight microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingMemVisRBC_Short_muMem10_Pr4_2_Time0_75.mp4

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Short constricted microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingMemVisRBC_RefCons_6mic_muMem_3_18_Pr8.mp4

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Long constricted microcapillary

Membrane shape	In-plane isotropic membrane tension

The fluid flow field inside and outside of the red blood cell
PostProcessingMemVisRBC_LongConVes_muMem_3_18_Pr40.mp4

Citation

@phdthesis{gurbuz2021Thesis,
    title={Simulations of Red Blood Cell Flow by Boundary Integral Methods},
    author={G\"urb\"uz, Ali},
    year={2021},
    school={State University of New York at Buffalo}
}

@software{RBCFlowInRigidTube_m,
  author       = {Ali G\"urb\"uz},
  title        = {RBCFlowInRigidTube.m},
  month        = Feb,
  year         = 2023,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.7668539},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7668539}
}