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The effect of shape on the margination dynamics of non-neutrally buoyant particles in two-dimensional shear flows

F Gentile1, C Chiappini, D Fine

  • 1BioNEM-Center of Bio-/Nanotechnology and-/Engineering for Medicine, University of Magna Graecia at Catanzaro, Viale Europa, Loc. Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.

Journal of Biomechanics
|June 24, 2008
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