Energy contributions of different elastic moduli in mesh-based modeling of deformable objects

One of the topics in biomedical engineering that is rapidly gaining interest, is modeling blood flow for various applications. We present a mesh-based model of elastic objects that can be used in such applications and a new approach to evaluation of energy contributions that correspond to different types of elastic forces in this model. We validate the new metric by looking at simulation experiments that focus on particular deformations of the object. The simulations are performed using our object-in-fluid framework as a part of extensible simulation package ESPResSo.