From classical thermodynamics to phase-field method

LQ Chen, Y Zhao - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase-field method is a density-based computational method at the mesoscale for modeling
and predicting the temporal microstructure and property evolution during materials …

Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

High-throughput methods in the discovery and study of biomaterials and materiobiology

L Yang, S Pijuan-Galito, HS Rho, AS Vasilevich… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The complex interaction of cells with biomaterials (ie, materiobiology) plays an increasingly
pivotal role in the development of novel implants, biomedical devices, and tissue …

The phase field method for geometric moving interfaces and their numerical approximations

Q Du, X Feng - Handbook of numerical analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This chapter surveys recent numerical advances in the phase field method for geometric
surface evolution and related geometric nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) …

Phase-field modeling of complex interface dynamics in drop-laden turbulence

A Roccon, F Zonta, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Turbulent flows laden with large, deformable drops are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide
range of industrial processes. Prediction of the interactions between drops, which deform …

Confinement and substrate topography control cell migration in a 3D computational model

B Winkler, IS Aranson, F Ziebert - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Cell movement in vivo is typically characterized by strong confinement and heterogeneous,
three-dimensional environments. Such external constraints on cell motility are known to play …

Cellular response to surface morphology: electrospinning and computational modeling

A Denchai, D Tartarini, E Mele - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Surface properties of biomaterials, such as chemistry and morphology, have a major role in
modulating cellular behavior and therefore impact on the development of high-performance …

Phase-field modeling of individual and collective cell migration

A Moure, H Gomez - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Cell motion is crucial in human health and development. Cells may migrate individually or in
highly coordinated groups. Cell motion results from complex intra-and extra-cellular …

Crawling and turning in a minimal reaction-diffusion cell motility model: Coupling cell shape and biochemistry

BA Camley, Y Zhao, B Li, H Levine, WJ Rappel - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
We study a minimal model of a crawling eukaryotic cell with a chemical polarity controlled by
a reaction-diffusion mechanism describing Rho GTPase dynamics. The size, shape, and …

Non-Gaussianity, population heterogeneity, and transient superdiffusion in the spreading dynamics of amoeboid cells

AG Cherstvy, O Nagel, C Beta, R Metzler - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
What is the underlying diffusion process governing the spreading dynamics and search
strategies employed by amoeboid cells? Based on the statistical analysis of experimental …