Asymptotic analysis of phase field formulations of bending elasticity models

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1367-1401

  Wang, Xiaoqiang ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Asymptotic expansion; Elastic bending energy; Lipid membrane; Numerical simulation; Phase field; Spectral method; Willmore's problem

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS; ELASTIC BENDING ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATIONS; ERROR ESTIMATES; EULER NUMBERS; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID VESICLES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE FIELD; PHASE FIELD MODELLING; PHASE FIELDS; SHARP INTERFACES; SPECTRAL METHOD; WILLMORE'S PROBLEM;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 52649175908     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060663519     Document Type: Article

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