Active Nematodynamics on Curved Surfaces – The Influence of Geometric Forces on Motion Patterns of Topological Defects

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2021-0206MaRDI QIDQ5065199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Nestler, Axel Voigt

Publication date 18 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07779

zbMATH Keywords

surface finite elementsdefect dynamicshydrodynamic couplingtopological active matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Qxx) Biological fluid mechanics (76Zxx)

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