Flow and hydrodynamic shear stress inside a printing needle during biofabrication.

We present a simple but accurate algorithm to calculate the flow and shear rate profile of shear thinning fluids, as typically used in biofabrication applications, with an arbitrary viscosity-shear rate relationship in a cylindrical nozzle. By interpolating the viscosity with a set of power-law func...

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Main Authors: Sebastian J Müller, Elham Mirzahossein, Emil N Iftekhar, Christian Bächer, Stefan Schrüfer, Dirk W Schubert, Ben Fabry, Stephan Gekle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236371