Bending models of lipid bilayer membranes: spontaneous curvature and area-difference elasticity

DOI10.1016/j.cma.2019.112758zbMath1441.74298arXiv1905.00240OpenAlexW2943547537WikidataQ126636929 ScholiaQ126636929MaRDI QIDQ2175108

Petros Koumoutsakos, Sergey Litvinov, Xin Bian

Publication date: 28 April 2020

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00240

zbMATH Keywords

lipid bilayervesiclered blood celltriangulated meshbending forcearea-difference elasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Membranes (74K15) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99)

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