Title of article
A phase field approach in the numerical study of the elastic bending energy for vesicle membranes
Author/Authors
Du، نويسنده , , Qiang and Liu، نويسنده , , Chun and Wang، نويسنده , , Xiaoqiang، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
Pages
19
From page
450
To page
468
Abstract
In this paper, we compute the equilibrium configurations of a vesicle membrane under elastic bending energy, with prescribed volume and surface area. A variational phase field method is developed for such a problem. Discrete finite difference approximations and numerical simulations are carried out in the axial symmetrical cases. Different energetic bifurcation phenomena are discussed.
Keywords
Bifurcation diagram , Phase field , Bio-membrane , finite difference methods , Axial-symmetry , Numerical simulation , elastic bending energy
Journal title
Journal of Computational Physics
Serial Year
2004
Journal title
Journal of Computational Physics
Record number
1478051
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