Viscous regularization and r-adaptive remeshing for finite element analysis of lipid membrane mechanics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5816-5835

  Ma, Lin ^a   Klug, William S ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial viscosity; Biomembranes; Finite element; Lipid bilayer mechanics; r Adaptive remeshing

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MESH GENERATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SHEAR STRESS;

ADAPTIVE REMESHING; ARTIFICIAL VISCOSITY; BIOMEMBRANES; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSE; LIPID BILAYER MECHANIC; LIPID MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE MECHANICS; R-ADAPTIVE REMESHING; REGULARISATION;

LIPID BILAYERS;

EID: 42649117766     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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