Subject: Applied Maths/Engineering Workshop - TODAY
Tuesday 5th March
16:10 Applied Mathematics/Engineering Research Workshop: Room M/2.06
Speaker: Maurice Blount (MATHS)
Title: The adhesion and desiccation of a sessile vesicle
Abstract:
Anhydrobiosis is a proposed method of preserving biological material through drying it rather than freezing it. To understand aspects of this process, I model the cell as a semi-permeable elastic membrane (a vesicle), and first apply a long-wave approximation to describe the drying process in regimes where the vesicle is strongly adhered to a substrate. The results of this simplified model are compared with those of boundary-integral simulations, and I analyse the latter to show how the process of vesicle adhesion depends strongly on the thin layer of fluid that is trapped between the vesicle and the substrate.
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