Structure preserving discretisations of gradient flows for axisymmetric two-phase biomembranes
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Author(s)
Garcke, Harald
Nurnberg, Robert
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The form and evolution of multi-phase biomembranes is of fundamental impor-tance in order to understand living systems. In order to describe these membranes,we consider a mathematical model based on a Canham–Helfrich–Evans two-phaseelastic energy, which will lead to fourth order geometric evolution problems involv-ing highly nonlinear boundary conditions. We develop a parametric finite elementmethod in an axisymmetric setting. Using a variational approach, it is possible toderive weak formulations for the highly nonlinear boundaryvalue problems suchthat energy decay laws, as well as conservation properties,hold for spatially discre-tised problems. We will prove these properties and show thatthe fully discretisedschemes are well-posed. Finally, several numerical computations demonstrate thatthe numerical method can be used to compute complex, experimentally observedtwo-phase biomembranes.
Date Issued
2021-07
Date Acceptance
2020-04-06
Citation
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 2021, 41 (3), pp.1899-1940
ISSN
0272-4979
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
1899
End Page
1940
Journal / Book Title
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Volume
41
Issue
3
Identifier
https://academic.oup.com/imajna/article/41/3/1899/5863415
Subjects
Numerical & Computational Mathematics
0102 Applied Mathematics
0103 Numerical and Computational Mathematics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-07-07