Numerical computations of the dynamics of fluidic membranes and vesicles

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-331453
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.33145

Barrett, John W. ; Garcke, Harald ; Nürnberg, Robert

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Abstract

Vesicles and many biological membranes are made of two monolayers of lipid molecules and form closed lipid bilayers. The dynamical behaviour of vesicles is very complex and a variety of forms and shapes appear. Lipid bilayers can be considered as a surface fluid and hence the governing equations for the evolution include the surface (Navier--)Stokes equations, which in particular take the ...