Modelling fluid deformable surfaces with an emphasis on biological interfaces

A Torres-Sánchez, D Millán, M Arroyo - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Fluid deformable surfaces are ubiquitous in cell and tissue biology, including lipid bilayers,
the actomyosin cortex or epithelial cell sheets. These interfaces exhibit a complex interplay …

Derivation and simulation of a two-phase fluid deformable surface model

E Bachini, V Krause, I Nitschke, A Voigt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
To explore the impact of surface viscosity on coexisting fluid domains in biomembranes we
consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such …

Finite element discretization methods for velocity-pressure and stream function formulations of surface Stokes equations

P Brandner, T Jankuhn, S Praetorius, A Reusken… - SIAM Journal on …, 2022 - SIAM
In this paper we study parametric trace finite element (TraceFEM) and parametric surface
finite element (SFEM) discretizations of a surface Stokes problem. These methods are …

Modeling and numerical simulation of surfactant systems with incompressible fluid flows on surfaces

M Sun, X ** scheme to simulate
fluid deformable surfaces. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier …

A tangential and penalty-free finite element method for the surface Stokes problem

A Demlow, M Neilan - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2024 - SIAM
Surface Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations are used to model fluid flow on surfaces. They
have attracted significant recent attention in the numerical analysis literature because …

Simultaneous analysis of continuously embedded Reissner–Mindlin shells in 3D bulk domains

MW Kaiser, TP Fries - International Journal for Numerical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A mechanical model and numerical method for the simultaneous analysis of Reissner–
Mindlin shells with geometries implied by a continuous set of level sets (isosurfaces) over …

A divergence-conforming finite element method for the surface Stokes equation

A Bonito, A Demlow, M Licht - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2020 - SIAM
The Stokes equation posed on surfaces is important in some physical models, but its
numerical solution poses several challenges not encountered in the corresponding …