Image-based model of the spectrin cytoskeleton for red blood cell simulation
Fig 6
Red cell ghost in steady shear flow with fixed cytoskeletal topology.
See also S2–S4 Videos. (a) Side view of a red cell tank-treading in shear flow with capillary number G = 0.54 and period T = 0.026 seconds. Based on the results of the section “Elastic response of random graphs”, the capillary number is calculated using the shear modulus E = 6 × 10−3 dyn/cm. A material point is marked in red to illustrate the counterclockwise rotation of the cell membrane, (b) Top view of the same cell, (c) Frequency of tank-treading versus capillary number for several values of G and comparison to previous results [1, 41], (d) The distribution of edge lengths in the cytoskeletal network is observed to oscillate during tank-treading.