Willmore flow for the radially symmetric case in in three space dimensions

An erythrocyte becomes temporarily immersed

(Graphics show half of the surface of revolution)
Scale: Separation in middle = 0.02, major radius = 1.9, minor radius = 0.62.
Shape of center: Modeled on y=x4.
Time step = 10-6.
Spatial resolution of generating curve = 0.01-0.05.
System: Toshiba 4015CDT Laptop with an Intel Pentium II 266 MHz.
Computation time: About 29 minutes.


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[leftarrow]Back mayer@math.utah.edu
Posted on: Tue Apr 10 12:05:38 PDT 2001