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An important ingredient for the analysis of the blood flow in the microcirculation is that the suspension of red cells in the plasma should not be treated as a continuum. In capillaries whose diameters range from 3 to 8 μm, the cells flow in single file. In larger vessels the flow is characterized by a distribution of red cells over the intraluminal cross-section. Extensive experimental studies for the latter flow regime have been done by Barbee and Cokelet (3). A theoretical description of this flow, however, has not been developed.
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Papenfuss, HD., Gross, J.F. (1982). Mathematical Model of the Single-File Flow of Red Blood Cells in Capillaries. In: Haase, W. (eds) Recent Contributions to Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81932-2_19
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