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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2009

Dynamics of a vesicle in general flow

Vasiliy Kantsler
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Enrico Segre
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Victor Steinberg
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Résumé

An approach to quantitatively study vesicle dynamics as well as biologically-related micro-objects in a fluid flow, which is based on the combination of a dynamical trap and a control parameter, the ratio of the vorticity to the strain rate, is suggested. The flow is continuously varied between rotational, shearing, and elongational in a microfluidic 4-roll mill device, the dynamical trap, that allows scanning of the entire phase diagram of motions, i.e., tank-treading (TT), tumbling (TU), and trembling (TR), using a single vesicle even at λ = ηin/ηout = 1, where ηin and ηout are the viscosities of the inner and outer fluids. This cannot be achieved in pure shear flow, where the transition between TT and either TU or TR is attained only at λ>1. As a result, it is found that the vesicle dynamical states in a general are presented by the phase diagram in a space of only 2 dimensionless control parameters. The findings are in semiquantitative accord with the recent theory made for a quasi-spherical vesicle, although vesicles with large deviations from spherical shape were studied experimentally. The physics of TR is also uncovered.

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hal-00437406 , version 1 (30-11-2009)

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Julien Deschamps, Vasiliy Kantsler, Enrico Segre, Victor Steinberg. Dynamics of a vesicle in general flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009, 106 (28), pp.11444-11447. ⟨10.1073/pnas.0902657106⟩. ⟨hal-00437406⟩
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