Curvature driven flow of bi-layer interfaces

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 240, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 675-693

  Gavish, Nir ^a   Hayrapetyan, Gurgen ^a   Promislow, Keith ^a   Yang, Li ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CanhamHelfrich energy; Functionalized Cahn Hilliard energy; Geometric evolution; Network formation

Indexed keywords

PHASE INTERFACES;

ASYMPTOTIC DERIVATIONS; CANHAMHELFRICH ENERGY; CURVATURE DRIVEN FLOWS; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; FUNCTIONALIZED CAHN-HILLIARD; GEOMETRIC EVOLUTION; MULTI-JUNCTION STRUCTURES; NETWORK FORMATION;

NETWORK LAYERS;

EID: 79951508407     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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