Figure 6
From: Partitioning of red blood cell aggregates in bifurcating microscale flows
(a) Spatial distributions for two different A* ranges (3 < A* < 5 and 7 < A* < A*max) in the aggregating case (D2000, parent branch), and for all flow rates tested in this study (Q ~0.35 ± 0.5 μl/h). (b) Spatial distributions of RBC aggregates of three different sizes throughout the bifurcating microchannel geometry. A* ~7 is shown in blue triangles (▴), A*~ 5 is shown in red squares (▪) and A*~3 in black circles (⚬). The flow ratio in the left daughter branch is ~0.87 (Q* = 0.13 in the right daughter). The red flow streamlines define the flow separating lines in the parent branch. Selected aggregates are shown for clarity of presentation.
