Migration of liquid drops through narrow passages and flow dynamics of cancer cells through constricted microchannels

Abstract

The aims of the present dissertation is to understand the ow dynamics of deformable drops as well as cancer cells in microchannels In this regard we study the motion and deformation of a neutrally buoyant drop in a microchannel both in the absence and presence of electric fields tuning the various hydrodynamic and electrical properties in the first part of the thesis The problems in the first part have been extensively investigated using numerical analysis In the other part we extend our u...