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Crossover from tumbling to tank-treading-like motion in dense simulated suspensions of red blood cells

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Raabe,  Dierk
Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Varnik,  Fathollah
Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany;
Theory and Simulation of Complex Fluids, Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Krüger, T., Gross, M., Raabe, D., & Varnik, F. (2013). Crossover from tumbling to tank-treading-like motion in dense simulated suspensions of red blood cells. Soft Matter, 9(37), 9008-9015. doi:10.1039/c3sm51645h.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-D539-F
Abstract
Via computer simulations, we provide evidence that the shear rate induced red blood cell tumbling-to-tank-treading transition also occurs at quite high volume fractions, where collective effects are important. The transition takes place as the ratio of effective suspension stress to the characteristic cell membrane stress exceeds a certain value and does not explicitly depend on volume fraction or cell deformability. This value coincides with that for a transition from an orientationally less ordered to a highly ordered phase. The average cell deformation does not show any signature of transition, but rather follows a simple scaling law independent of volume fraction. © 2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry.