A phase field method for simulating morphological evolution of vesicles in electric fields Export

@article{citeulike:4665612, abstract = {A phase field method is developed to investigate the morphological evolution of a vesicle in an electric field, taking into account coupled mechanical and electric effects such as bending, osmotic pressure, surface tension, flexoelectricity, and dielectricity of the membrane. The energy of the system is formulated in terms of a continuous phase field variable and the electric potential. The governing equations of the phase field and the electric field are solved using the Galerkin weighted residual approach. The validation and robustness of the algorithm are verified by direct comparisons of the obtained numerical solutions with relevant experimental results. The morphological evolution of an axisymmetric vesicle under an electric field is studied in detail. The results demonstrate that the present method can simulate complex morphological evolutions of vesicles under coupled mechanical–electrical fields.}, author = {Gao, Ling-Tian and Feng, Xi-Qiao and Gao, Huajian}, citeulike-article-id = {4665612}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.034}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0021999109001065}, day = {20}, doi = {10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.034}, issn = {00219991}, journal = {Journal of Computational Physics}, keywords = {biomembranes, flexoelectric}, month = {June}, number = {11}, pages = {4162--4181}, posted-at = {2009-05-28 12:32:00}, priority = {2}, title = {A phase field method for simulating morphological evolution of vesicles in electric fields}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.034}, volume = {228}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4665612 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4665612 N2 - A phase field method is developed to investigate the morphological evolution of a vesicle in an electric field, taking into account coupled mechanical and electric effects such as bending, osmotic pressure, surface tension, flexoelectricity, and dielectricity of the membrane. The energy of the system is formulated in terms of a continuous phase field variable and the electric potential. The governing equations of the phase field and the electric field are solved using the Galerkin weighted residual approach. The validation and robustness of the algorithm are verified by direct comparisons of the obtained numerical solutions with relevant experimental results. The morphological evolution of an axisymmetric vesicle under an electric field is studied in detail. The results demonstrate that the present method can simulate complex morphological evolutions of vesicles under coupled mechanical–electrical fields. IS - 11 JF - Journal of Computational Physics SN - 00219991 EP - 4181 TI - A phase field method for simulating morphological evolution of vesicles in electric fields VL - 228 SP - 4162 KW - biomembranes KW - flexoelectric AU - Gao, Ling-Tian AU - Feng, Xi-Qiao AU - Gao, Huajian PY - 2009/06/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.034 ER -