Micromechanical simulations of biopolymer networks with finite elements

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2012.10.025MaRDI QIDQ402175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. J. Cyron, Kei W. Müller, Andreas R. Bausch, Wolfgang A. Wall

Publication date 27 August 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.10.025

zbMATH Keywords

networksfinite elementsBrownian dynamicspolymer physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Biomechanics (92C10)

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