This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. MICRO-SCALE BLOOD PARTICULATE DYNAMICS USING A NURBS-BASED ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS V. Chivukula 1 , J. Mousel 2 , J. Lu 2 and S. Vigmostad 1* 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering 2 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 *email: sarah-vigmostad@uiowa.edu This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Engng., e02666. doi: 10.1002/cnm.2666