A computational study of lateral phase separation in biological membranes
Numerical Analysis
2019-01-08 v2 Biological Physics
Abstract
Conservative and non-conservative phase-field models are considered for the numerical simulation of lateral phase separation and coarsening in biological membranes. An unfitted finite element method is devised for these models to allow for a flexible treatment of complex shapes in the absence of an explicit surface parametrization. For a set of biologically relevant shapes and parameter values, the paper compares the dynamic coarsening produced by conservative and non-conservative numerical models, its dependence on certain geometric characteristics and convergence to the final equilibrium
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@article{arxiv.1808.06741,
title = {A computational study of lateral phase separation in biological membranes},
author = {Vladimir Yushutin and Annalisa Quaini and Sheereen Majd and Maxim Olshanskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06741},
year = {2019}
}