A variational principle for molecular motors

Meccanica

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 505-518

  Chipot, Michel ^a   Kinderlehrer, David ^b   Kowalczyk, Michal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motors; Diffusion mediated transport; Dissipation principle; Fokker Planck equations; Kantorovich Wasserstein metric; Molecular motors; Monge Kantorovich problem

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; PROTEINS; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

MOLECULAR MOTORS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0042235022     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024719028273     Document Type: Article

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