3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Enucleated incompressible red blood cells in shear flow: theoretical analysis of shape instabilities
Avraham Moriel, Howard A. Stone, Simon Mendez
Red blood cells (RBCs) are essential for oxygen transport, and their remarkable ability to undergo significant deformations during flow is a crucial feature for their physiological…
math.NA2024
A discrete de Rham discretization of interface diffusion problems with application to the Leaky Dielectric Model
Daniele A. Di Pietro, Simon Mendez, Aurelio Edoardo Spadotto
Motivated by the study of the electrodynamics of particles, we propose in this work an arbitrary-order discrete de Rham scheme for the treatment of elliptic problems with potential…
physics.flu-dyn2024
How a table modulates the risk of airborne transmission between facing individuals
OÄuzhan Kaplan, Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez
Airborne transmission has been recognized as an important route of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. While coughing and sneezing are spe…