Amit Kumar, Michael D. Graham
Flowing blood displays a phenomenon called margination, in which leukocytes and platelets are preferentially found near blood vessel walls. Here margination is investigated using direct hydrodynamic simulations of a binary suspension of stiff (s) and floppy (f) capsules, as well as a stochastic model that incorporates the key particle transport mechanisms in suspensions -- wall-induced hydrodynamic migration and shear-induced pair collisions. The stochastic model allows the relative importance of these two mechanisms to be directly evaluated and thereby indicates that margination, at least in the dilute case, is largely due to the differential dynamics of homogeneous (e.g. s-s) and heterogeneous (e.g. s-f) collisions.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0943
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