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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.031921
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The study of vesicles under flow, a model system for red blood cells (RBCs), is an essential step in understanding various intricate dynamics exhibited by RBCs in vivo and in vitro. Quantitative three-dimensional analyses of vesicles under flow are presented. The regions of parameters to produce tumbling (TB), tank-treating, vacillating-breathing (VB), and even kayaking (or spinning) modes are determined. New qualitative features are found: (i) a significant widening of the VB mode region in parameter space upon increasing shear rate gamma and (ii) a robustness of normalized period of TB and VB with gamma. Analytical support is also provided. We make a comparison with existing experimental results. In particular, we find that the phase diagram of the various dynamics depends on three dimensionless control parameters, while a recent experimental work reported that only two are sufficient.
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