Numerical methods for biomembranes: Conforming subdivision methods versus non-conforming PL methods

DOI10.1090/mcom/3584zbMath1455.49023arXiv1901.09990OpenAlexW3080455656MaRDI QIDQ5145087

Robert B. Kusner, Yilin Yang, Jingmin Chen, Patrick Brogan, Andrew Zigerelli, Thomas P.-Y. Yu

Publication date: 20 January 2021

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09990

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear optimizationWillmore surfacessymmetry breakingdiscrete differential geometryWillmore energysymmetry preservinglipid bilayerconformal parametrizationsubdivision surfaceCanham-Evans-Helfrich modelconforming and non-conforming finite element methodsPL surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear programming (90C30) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Spline approximation (41A15) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Schwarz-Christoffel-type mappings (30C30) Numerical approximation and computational geometry (primarily algorithms) (65D99) PDE constrained optimization (numerical aspects) (49M41)

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Uses Software

• SNOPT
• Surface Evolver
• GRANSO

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