• Title of article

    (A note on)2 the shape of the erythrocyte

  • Author/Authors

    Adam، نويسنده , , J.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    73
  • To page
    77
  • Abstract
    A note on the shape of the red blood cell is revisited, utilizing variational calculus to to find an extremum for the surface area of such a cell, using the volume as a constraint. A fairly significant error in the value of the volume is corrected, and the note concludes with a discussion of measures of cell shape (such as the sphericity index) which are more appropriate than the dimensional surface area to volume ratio.
  • Keywords
    Variational calculus , Red blood cell , Sphericity index
  • Journal title
    Mathematical and Computer Modelling
  • Serial Year
    1998
  • Journal title
    Mathematical and Computer Modelling
  • Record number

    1591059