A semi-implicit finite element method for viscous lipid membranes

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2015.06.010zbMath1349.76260arXiv1409.3581OpenAlexW2285747237MaRDI QIDQ2374663

Diego Samuel Rodrigues, Roberto Federico Ausas, Gustavo C. Buscaglia, Fernando Mut

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3581

zbMATH Keywords

biological membranesinextensibilitylipid bilayersurface finite elementssurface viscosityCanham-Helfrich energybending energytangential calculusBoussinesq-scriven operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Cell biology (92C37) Physiological flows (76Z05)

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Uses Software

• Gerris
• MUMPS

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