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Statistical Dynamics of Flowing Red Blood Cells by Morphological Image Processing

Figure 5

Cellular velocity fluctuations as an effective temperature.

These two panels compare probability distribution functions for normalized squared velocity fluctuations from two different experiments with chi-squared distributions with 2 degrees of freedom. is normalized with mean 0 and standard deviation 1, and x- and y-axes are defined in the top panel of Figure 1. This comparison shows that blood flow has an effective suspension temperature with longer tails as a result of the non-equilibrium nature of the pressure-driven system.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000288.g005