Modelling of cancer cells as viscoelastic materials

- March 28, 2019 at 7:23 am
  
  vkreader
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  Dear mates, I want to model cancer cells as viscoelastic material while flowing through a constricted microchannel. where flowing medium is considered as blood plasma. The constricted passage is of width 7μm. I have already used the VOF model present in ANSYS Fluent. There I modelled it but was not able to get close to the results. So I want to model it now as viscoelastic modelling so that I will be able to model it closely. Looking forward for some discussions and guidance.
- March 30, 2019 at 11:43 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  Can you upgrade from ANSYS 14.5 to the current version? That version is about 5 years old.
- April 1, 2019 at 5:25 am
  
  vkreader
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  Thanks, Peter .. I will do that. Is the viscoelasticity model available in that version?
  
  If it is please guide me further.
- April 1, 2019 at 5:51 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  New capabilities are added at each version, it is rare for anything to be retired without there being something better to replace it. I'm not the CFD expert here, so come back when you have downloaded ANSYS Student 2019 R1 and tried your model there.
- April 3, 2019 at 4:41 am
  
  vkreader
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  ok sir