Figure 10

Relation between cell circumferential strain ε and the local dimensionless shear rate G *. A nonlinear regression fit of results for the single cell in simple shear flow and multi-cells in channel flow indicates the validity of the ε and G* characterizations for general shearing conditions on the 2D RBC profile $\left(\mathit{\epsilon }=-0.1771{\mathit{e}}^{-0.0611\mathit{G}*}+0.1771;{\mathit{R}}_{\mathit{Single}}^2=0.996\mathrm{and}{\mathit{R}}_{\mathit{Multi}}^2=0.939\right)$.