Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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519281 | Journal of Computational Physics | 2011 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
A new numerical method to model the dynamic behavior of lipid vesicles under general flows is presented. A gradient-augmented level set method is used to model the membrane motion. To enforce the volume- and surface-incompressibility constraints a four-step projection method is developed to integrate the full Navier–Stokes equations. This scheme is implemented on an adaptive non-graded Cartesian grid. Convergence results are presented, along with sample two-dimensional results of vesicles under various flow conditions.
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Authors
D. Salac, M. Miksis,