Finite element approximation for the dynamics of fluidic two-phase biomembranes

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2017037zbMATH Open1383.35153arXiv1611.05343OpenAlexW3098433744WikidataQ117202069 ScholiaQ117202069MaRDI QIDQ3133566FDOQ3133566

Authors: John W. Barrett, Harald Garcke, Robert Nürnberg 

Publication date: 2 February 2018

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface and in the surrounding medium to model these phenomena. The evolution is driven by a curvature energy, modelling the elasticity of the membrane, and by a Cahn--Hilliard type energy, modelling line energy effects. A stable semidiscrete finite element approximation is introduced and, with the help of a fully discrete method, several phenomena occurring for two-phase membranes are computed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05343

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zbMATH Keywords

Helfrich energyspontaneous curvatureline energyparametric finite elementsfluidic membranessurface Cahn-Hilliard equationincompressible two-phase Navier-Stokes flowlocal surface area conservationMarangoni-type effectssurface phase field model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Biophysics (92C05) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Biological fluid mechanics (76Z99)

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