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The dynamics of a vesicle in simple shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

HONG ZHAO  and
ERIC S. G. SHAQFEH
HONG ZHAO*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
ERIC S. G. SHAQFEH
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: hongzhao@stanford.edu
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Abstract

We have performed direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a lipid vesicle under Stokes flow conditions in simple shear flow. The lipid membrane is modelled as a two-dimensional incompressible fluid with Helfrich surface energy in response to bending deformation. A high-fidelity spectral boundary integral method is used to solve the flow and membrane interaction system; the spectral resolution and convergence of the numerical scheme are demonstrated. The critical viscosity ratios for the transition from tank-treading (TT) to ‘trembling’ (TR, also called VB, i.e. vacillating-breathing, or swinging) and eventually ‘tumbling’ (TU) motions are calculated by linear stability analysis based on this spectral method, and are in good agreement with perturbation theories. The effective shear rheology of a dilute suspension of these vesicles is also calculated over a wide parameter regime. Finally, our DNS reveals a family of time-periodic and off-the-shear-plane motion patterns where the vesicle's configuration follows orbits that resemble but are fundamentally different from the classical Jeffery orbits of rigid particles due to the vesicle's deformability.

JFM classification

Low-Reynolds-number flows: Boundary integral methods Biological Fluid Dynamics: Capsule/cell dynamics Complex Fluids: Suspensions
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 674 , 10 May 2011 , pp. 578 - 604
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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