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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 450-468 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Physics |
| Volume | 198 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 10 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Numerical Analysis
- Modeling and Simulation
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Computer Science Applications
- Computational Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics
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