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Numerical simulation of the flow-induced deformation of red blood cells

C Pozrikidis1

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. cpozrikidis@ucsd.edu

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
|December 3, 2003
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