The Canham-Helfrich model for the elasticity biomembranes as a limit of mesoscopic energiess

DOI10.7546/giq-21-2020-170-180zbMath1471.49010OpenAlexW3092302322MaRDI QIDQ1980271

Luca Lussardi

Publication date: 3 September 2021

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.7546/giq-21-2020-170-180

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergencevarifoldsbiomembranescurvature functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Biophysics (92C05) Membranes (74K15) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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