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Surface integral equation based derivation and algorithm for simulating vesicle flows in three dimensions, A
Sprinkle, Brennan
Sprinkle, Brennan
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We present a method for simulating the evolution of inextensible vesicles suspended in a Stokesian fluid flow. The flow model problem is reformulated as a coupled system of integro-differential equations relating the evolution of the vesicle membrane to the interfacial forces. Variational techniques are applied to derive an exact form for the interfacial forces on the vesicle. A super algebraic algorithm is presented to numerically evaluate weakly singular integrals which arise in the development of the simulation. Discretization of our coupled system of integro-differential equations is done using a fully discrete Galerkin method in space and an explicit scheme in time. This approach yields a high--order spatially accurate solution with relatively few degrees of freedom. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the reformulation and the high-order algorithm.
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