Hydrodynamics of multicomponent vesicles: A phase-field approach

Z Wen, N Valizadeh, T Rabczuk, X Zhuang - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we introduce a thermodynamically-consistent phase-field model to investigate
the hydrodynamics of inextensible multicomponent vesicles in various fluid flows with inertial …

The tension determination problem for an inextensible interface in 2D Stokes flow

PC Kuo, MC Lai, Y Mori, A Rodenberg - Research in the Mathematical …, 2023 - Springer
Consider an inextensible closed filament immersed in a 2D Stokes fluid. Given a force
density F defined on this filament, we consider the problem of determining the tension σ on …

Quadrature by fundamental solutions: kernel-independent layer potential evaluation for large collections of simple objects

DB Stein, AH Barnett - Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2022 - Springer
Well-conditioned boundary integral methods for the solution of elliptic boundary value
problems (BVPs) are powerful tools for static and dynamic physical simulations. When there …

Dynamics and rheology of vesicles under confined Poiseuille flow

Z Gou, H Zhang, A Nait-Ouhra, M Abbasi, A Farutin… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The rheological behavior and dynamics of a vesicle suspension, serving as a simplified
model for red blood cells, are explored within a Poiseuille flow under the Stokes limit …

狭窄通道红细胞跨膜传质特性数值分析

傅尧, 王骁龙, 龚晓波 - 力学学报, 2023 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
随着对血液微流动过程的不断探索, 红细胞在微通道中的运动微观特性备受关注,
利用流体力学特性的低损伤手段调控细胞体积并完成跨膜传药也逐渐成为研究热点 …

Effects of tunable hydrophobicity on the collective hydrodynamics of Janus particles under flows

SP Fu, R Ryham, B Quaife, YN Young - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Active colloidal systems with nonequilibrium self-organization constitute a long-standing,
challenging area in material sciences and biology. To understand how hydrodynamic flow …

Swinging and tumbling of multicomponent vesicles in flow

P Gera, D Salac, SE Spagnolie - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Biological membranes are host to proteins and molecules which may form domain-like
structures resulting in spatially varying material properties. Vesicles with such …

Spectrally accurate solutions to inhomogeneous elliptic PDE in smooth geometries using function intension

DB Stein - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a spectrally accurate embedded boundary method for solving linear,
inhomogeneous, elliptic partial differential equations (PDE) in general smooth geometries in …

Phase field modeling and computation of vesicle growth or shrinkage

X Tang, S Li, JS Lowengrub, SM Wise - Journal of mathematical biology, 2023 - Springer
We present a phase field model for vesicle growth or shrinkage induced by an osmotic
pressure due to a chemical potential gradient. The model consists of an Allen–Cahn …

Two-dimensional hydrodynamics of a Janus particle vesicle

SP Fu, B Quaife, R Ryham, YN Young - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We develop a new model, to our knowledge, for the many-body hydrodynamics of
amphiphilic Janus particles suspended in a viscous background flow. The Janus particles …