1st Edition
Dynamics of Blood Cell Suspensions in Microflows
Chapter 1. Blood in Flow. Basic Concepts
Chapter 2. Dynamics of Suspensions of Rigid Particles
Chapter 3. Blood as a Suspension of Defomable Particles
Chapter 4. Microstructure and Rheology of Cellular Blood Flow, Platelet Margination and Adhesion
Chapter 5. Single Red Blood Cell Dynamics in Shear Flow and their Role in Hemorheology
Chapter 6. Aggregation and Blood Flow in Health and Disease
Chapter 7. Platelet Dynamics and Behaviour in Blood Flow
Chapter 8. Blood Suspenison in a Network
Chapter 9. White Blood Cell Dynamics in Micro-flows
Chapter 10. Inertial Microfluidics and its Application in Hematology
Chapter 11. Microfluidic Biotechnologies for Hematology
Chapter 12. Blood Suspensions in Animals
Biography
Annie Viallat, senior scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, France, heads the "Physics and Engineering for Living Systems" Department in Marseille. She works on the physics of active matter, microcirculation of red blood cells and mucociliary clearance in health and disease.
Manouk Abkarian is a senior scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is a bio- and a soft matter physicist with an internationally recognized expertise on red blood cells dynamics and membrane mechanics, as well as in microfluidics and colloidal science.
