A General Shear-Dependent Model for Thrombus Formation
Fig 3
Snapshots of low-shear blood clotting in a 50μm circular tube.
(a) schematic of the simulation setup; (b), (c) and (d) velocity at the inlet is parabolic with the mean velocity equal to 100, 400, 800 μm/s, respectively. Green particles represent the seeded platelets at the site of injury, whereas blue and red particles are passive and activated platelets, respectively. Blue particles are plotted smaller for clarity. Activated particles can form thrombus and adhere to the injured wall. The circular plots on the left column present the side views of each tube showing the clot that is formed by activated platelets, whereas the circular plots on the right column are cross-sections taken at the center of clots showing the contours of λ2 on those planes.