An XFEM-based numerical strategy to model mechanical interactions between biological cells and a deformable substrate

DOI10.1002/nme.4335zbMath1352.92004OpenAlexW2167785984MaRDI QIDQ2952101

Mehdi Farsad, Franck J. Vernerey

Publication date: 30 December 2016

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4335

zbMATH Keywords

contractionlevel setXFEMsubstratecell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Cell biology (92C37) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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