Fluid Vesicles in Shear Flow
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1 chem-ph
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609170,
title = {Fluid Vesicles in Shear Flow},
author = {Martin Kraus and Wolfgang Wintz and Udo Seifert and Reinhard Lipowsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609170},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, LaTeX2e, psfig, 5 eps figures included, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett., 1996