Motion of a two-dimensional elastic capsule in a branching channel flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112010004829zbMath1225.76100MaRDI QIDQ3097700

Hugh C. Woolfenden, Mark G. Blyth

Publication date: 10 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

low-Reynolds-number flowsparticle/fluid flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Biomechanics (92C10) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Physiological flows (76Z05)

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