Numerical simulation of biological capsules based on interface-fitted polygonal meshes

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2610.18172MaRDI QIDQ7394908arXivFDO

Authors Daniele A. Di Pietro, Aurelio E. Spadotto, Simon Mendez

Publication date 13 October 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr This work introduces a numerical framework for simulating biological capsules based on meshes that adapt to the membrane shape, leveraging Hybrid High Order method (HHO) and polygonal meshes with general polygons to achieve accurate interface discretizations without bulk degrees of freedom.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.18172

arXiv classification

math.NAphysics.med-ph

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