Hemodynamics at the mesoscale : a coarse‐grained lattice Boltzmann‐molecular dynamics approach

Change of title: Mesoscale hemodynamics with coarse-grained lattice Boltzmann-molecular dynamics simulations Computer simulations of blood are demanding due to its nature as a suspension of deformable red blood cells in blood plasma. Typical models either describe blood as a homogeneous fluid or restrict themselves to relatively small numbers of highly resolved cells. We develop a simplified yet still particulate model for the simulation of millions of cells on current supercomputers. The model is based on a lattice Boltzmann (LB) solver for the plasma and describes the cells as rigid particles with additional model potentials which account for their deformability.