Modeling and Simulation of Open Membranes in Stokes Flow with Mixed-Dimensional Coupling
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| author | Zhou, Han Young, Yuan-Nan Mori, Yoichiro |
| author_facet | Zhou, Han Young, Yuan-Nan Mori, Yoichiro |
| contents | In this work, we present a mathematical and computational framework to model the dynamics of open lipid bilayer membranes interacting with ambient Stokes flow. The model explicitly couples the three-dimensional viscous fluid, the two-dimensional membrane surface, and its one-dimensional free edge. We develop an axisymmetric hybrid BEM-FEM method that solves the problem with an effective one-dimensional formulation. A key component is a local mesh refinement strategy designed to accurately resolve singularities and boundary layers originating at the membrane edge. Several numerical examples are provided to showcase its ability to capture intricate edge dynamics and multiscale fluid-membrane coupling. |
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| spellingShingle | Modeling and Simulation of Open Membranes in Stokes Flow with Mixed-Dimensional Coupling Zhou, Han Young, Yuan-Nan Mori, Yoichiro Numerical Analysis Computational Physics In this work, we present a mathematical and computational framework to model the dynamics of open lipid bilayer membranes interacting with ambient Stokes flow. The model explicitly couples the three-dimensional viscous fluid, the two-dimensional membrane surface, and its one-dimensional free edge. We develop an axisymmetric hybrid BEM-FEM method that solves the problem with an effective one-dimensional formulation. A key component is a local mesh refinement strategy designed to accurately resolve singularities and boundary layers originating at the membrane edge. Several numerical examples are provided to showcase its ability to capture intricate edge dynamics and multiscale fluid-membrane coupling. |
| title | Modeling and Simulation of Open Membranes in Stokes Flow with Mixed-Dimensional Coupling |
| topic | Numerical Analysis Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16823 |