Willmore Flow in the radially symmetric case
An erythrocyte becomes temporarily immersed
(Graphics show half of the surface of revolution)
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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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Posted on: Tue Apr 10 12:04:22 PDT 2001