A two-phase mixture model of platelet aggregation

J Du, AL Fogelson - … medicine and biology: a journal of the IMA, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present a two-phase model of platelet aggregation in coronary-artery-sized blood
vessels. The model tracks the number densities of three platelet populations as well as the …

A computational framework for the swelling dynamics of mucin-like polyelectrolyte gels

J Du, BM Nagda, OL Lewis, DB Szyld… - Journal of non …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gastric mucus is a polyelectrolyte gel that serves as the primary defense of the stomach
lining against acid and digestive enzymes. Mucus is released from granules in specialized …

[HTML][HTML] Electrodiffusion-mediated swelling of a two-phase gel model of gastric mucus

OL Lewis, JP Keener, AL Fogelson - Gels, 2018 - mdpi.com
Gastric mucus gel is known to exhibit dramatic and unique swelling behaviors in response to
the ionic composition of the hydrating solution. This swelling behavior is important in the …

[HTML][HTML] Low Reynolds number swimming near interfaces in multi-fluid media

A Cartwright, J Du - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms often swim within heterogeneous fluid media composed of multiple
materials with very different properties. The swimming speed is greatly affected by the …

The development of biofilm architecture

AC Fowler, TM Kyrke-Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We extend the one-dimensional polymer solution theory of bacterial biofilm growth
described by Winstanley et al.(2011 Proc. R. Soc. A 467, 1449–1467 (doi: 10.1098/rspa …

Low Reynolds Number Locomotion Near Interfaces in Two-fluid Media

ARM Cartwright - 2023 - repository.fit.edu
Microorganisms often swim within complex fluid environments composed of multiple
materials with very different properties. Biological locomotion, including swimming speed, is …

Modeling and Simulation of Ion-Induced Volume Phase Transitions in Chemically-Active Polyelectrolyte Gels

BM Nagda - 2023 - repository.fit.edu
Ion-induced volume phase transitions in polyelectrolyte gels play an important role in
physiological processes such as mucus storage and secretion in the gut, nerve tissue …

Symmetry solutions of the multiphase model with biological applications

D Ekrut - 2016 - search.proquest.com
The multiphase model has given keen insights into many aspects of biology, from crawling
cells to bio-gel morphology and tumor angiogenesis [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. Phases are …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling and Simulation of the Ion-Binding-Mediated Swelling Dynamics of Mucin-like Polyelectrolyte Gels. Gels 2021, 7, 244

J Du, OL Lewis, JP Keener, AL Fogelson - 2021 - academia.edu
Volume phase transitions in polyeletrolyte gels play important roles in many biophysical
processes such as DNA packaging, nerve excitation, and cellular secretion. The swelling …