A variational approach to particles in lipid membranes

DOI10.1007/S00205-016-1016-9zbMATH Open1362.35311arXiv1512.02375OpenAlexW2286636331MaRDI QIDQ338104FDOQ338104

Authors: Charles M. Elliott, C. Gräser, Graham Hobbs, Ralf Kornhuber, Maren-Wanda Wolf 

Publication date: 4 November 2016

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A variety of models for the membrane-mediated interaction of particles in lipid membranes, mostly well-established in theoretical physics, is reviewed from a mathematical perspective. We provide mathematically consistent formulations in a variational framework, relate apparently different modelling approaches in terms of successive approximation, and investigate existence and uniqueness. Numerical computations illustrate that the new variational formulations are directly accessible to effective numerical methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02375

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zbMATH Keywords

hybrid modelsproteins in lipid membranes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Biophysics (92C05) Membranes (74K15)

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