Collective effects in muscle contraction and cellular adhesion

HB da Rocha - 2018 - pastel.hal.science
Two biological systems, a half-sarcomere of a skeletal muscle and an adhesive cluster of a
crawling keratocyte, are considered in parallel because of the deep similarity in their …

Exactly solvable stochastic models in elastic structures and scalar conservation laws

DC Kaspar - 2014 - escholarship.org
This dissertation presents new results concerning two models with deterministic dynamics
but involving a stochastic initial condition or environment. The first concerns a well-known …