Descriptions of membrane mechanics from microscopic and effective two-dimensional perspectives

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/33/005zbMATH Open1114.74034arXivcond-mat/0509664OpenAlexW2003215604MaRDI QIDQ5485524FDOQ5485524

Authors: Michael A. Lomholt, Ling Miao 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Mechanics of fluid membranes may be described in terms of the concepts of mechanical deformations and stresses, or in terms of mechanical free-energy functions. In this paper, each of the two descriptions is developed by viewing a membrane from two perspectives: a microscopic perspective, in which the membrane appears as a thin layer of finite thickness and with highly inhomogeneous material and force distributions in its transverse direction, and an effective, two-dimensional perspective, in which the membrane is treated as an infinitely thin surface, with effective material and mechanical properties. A connection between these two perspectives is then established. Moreover, the functional dependence of the variation in the mechanical free energy of the membrane on its mechanical deformations is first studied in the microscopic perspective. The result is then used to examine to what extent different, effective mechanical stresses and forces can be derived from a given, effective functional of the mechanical free energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509664

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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