Fluid Vesicles in Shear Flow

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1996-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9609170v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 3685-3688

Physics

Condensed Matter

10 pages, LaTeX2e, psfig, 5 eps figures included, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett., 1996

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3685

The shape dynamics of fluid vesicles is governed by the coupling of the flow within the two-dimensional membrane to the hydrodynamics of the surrounding bulk fluid. We present a numerical scheme which is capable of solving this flow problem for arbitrarily shaped vesicles using the Oseen tensor formalism. For the particular problem of simple shear flow, stationary shapes are found for a large range of parameters. The dependence of the orientation of the vesicle and the membrane velocity on shear rate and vesicle volume can be understood from a simplified model.

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