New Approach on the General Shape Equation of Axisymmetric Vesicles
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The general Helfrich shape equation determined by minimizing the curvature free energy describes the equilibrium shapes of the axisymmetric lipid bilayer vesicles in different conditions. It is a non-linear differential equation with variable coefficients. In this letter, by analyzing the unique property of the solution, we change this shape equation into a system of the two differential equations. One of them is a linear differential equation. This equation system contains all of the known rigorous solutions of the general shape equation. And the more general constraint conditions are found for the solution of the general shape equation.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9901075,
title = {New Approach on the General Shape Equation of Axisymmetric Vesicles},
author = {Zhan-Ning Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9901075},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, LaTex, submit to Mod. Phys. Lett. B