Fast Simulation of Lipid Vesicle Deformation Using Spherical Harmonic Approximation

Michael Mikucki1, Yongcheng Zhou2

  • 1Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 80401, USA.

Communications in Computational Physics
|August 15, 2017
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a fast algorithm using surface harmonic functions to model lipid vesicle membrane deformations. The method efficiently computes curvature energy, significantly reducing computational costs for tracking multiple interacting vesicles.