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Wrinkling of microcapsules in shear flow

2006/01/25 by R. Finken, Reimar Finken, Udo Seifert · 1 citation
Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Materials and Mechanics #Blood properties and coagulation #Platelet Disorders and Treatments #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/18/15/l04

published as J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 (2006) L185-L191 · 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRL

arxiv created 2006/01/25 · openalex publication_date 2006/03/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Elastic capsules can exhibit short wavelength wrinkling in external shear flow. We analyse this instability of the capsule shape and use the length scale separation between the capsule radius and the wrinkling wavelength to derive analytical results both for the threshold value of the shear rate and for the critical wavelength of the wrinkling. These results can be used to deduce elastic parameters from experiments.

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