Lucas Amoudruz

Apr 17, 2024 | cell.com | Lucas Amoudruz |Athena Economides |Petros Koumoutsakos

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Aug 18, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Lucas Amoudruz

1 IntroductionMicroswimmers operate in the environment of low Reynolds number. Due to the dominant viscous force, they cannot propel themselves by imparting momentum. Through millions of years of evolution, biological microswimmers have developed many special propulsion mechanisms to overcome and even exploit the viscous force. Understanding these mechanisms is a key to shedding light on many biological and pathological problems.

Mar 16, 2023 | cell.com | Athena Economides |Georgios Arampatzis |Lucas Amoudruz

Significance: Human erythrocytes, or red blood cells (RBCs) are the dominant constituents of blood and their dynamics is governed by the visco-elastic properties of their membrane. Despite its importance, today’s RBC membrane models are not able to predict blood flows without case specific adjustment of their parameters. Existing RBC models rely on the assumption of a stress-free state (SFS) of the cytoskeleton.