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220 J. Hao et al.<br />

Table 2. The calculated detachment percentages at t =10s.<br />

Dynamical viscosity (g/cm-s) Shear rate (/s) Detachment (%)<br />

0.01 20 0<br />

0.01 30 10<br />

0.014 30 35<br />

0.01 40 40<br />

0.01 80 100<br />

100<br />

90<br />

percentage of detached cell (%)<br />

80<br />

70<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

20 30 40 50 60 70 80<br />

shear rate ( /s)<br />

Fig. 5. The effect of shear rate on cell detachment (viscosity= 0.01 g/cm-s).<br />

linearly correlated with the observed time. This observation was also found<br />

in in vitro experiments [SBBR + 02].<br />

We have used our models <strong>and</strong> algorithms to simulate adhesion <strong>and</strong> detachment<br />

of chondrocytes. The simulations successfully depicted the process of cell<br />

detachment from the wall. The numerical results qualitatively agree with the<br />

experiments in the literature. Since there are few publications on modeling<br />

chondrocytes for this problem, our modeling <strong>and</strong> simulation are quite preliminary.<br />

More work is needed in modeling <strong>and</strong> in investigating parameters for<br />

the cell adhesion at different stages as discussed in [ZBCAG04].<br />

Acknowledgement. We acknowledge the helpful comments <strong>and</strong> suggestions of R.<br />

Bai, S. Canic, E. J. Dean, R. Glowinski, J. He, H. H. Hu, P. Y. Huang, G. P.<br />

Galdi, D. D. Joseph, <strong>and</strong> Y. Kuznetsov. We acknowledge also the support of NSF<br />

(grants ECS-9527123, CTS-9873236, DMS-9973318, CCR-9902035, DMS-0209066,<br />

DMS-0443826) <strong>and</strong> DOE/LASCI (grant R71700K-292-000-99).

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