Stability of multicomponent biological membranes

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 489-511

  Givli, Sefi ^a   Giang, Ha ^b   Bhattacharya, Kaushik ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological; Heterogeneous; Membrane; Spherical; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL; DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GENERAL CLASS; HETEROGENEOUS; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTEGRAL THEOREM; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MULTICOMPONENTS; NONUNIFORM; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SPHERICAL; STABILITY CONDITION; SYSTEM SIZE;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CYTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEMBRANES; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

STABILITY;

EID: 84861580858     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110831301     Document Type: Article

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