On the curvature effect of thin membranes

Authors:
Duo Wang;Xiangmin Jiao;Rebecca Conley;James Glimm
Affiliations:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA;Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA;Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA;Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Venue:
Journal of Computational Physics
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We investigate the curvature effect of a thin, curved elastic interface that separates two subdomains and exerts a pressure due to a curvature effect. This pressure, which we refer to as interface pressure, is similar to the surface tension in fluid mechanics. It is important in some applications, such as the canopy of parachutes, biological membranes of cells, balloons, airbags, etc., as it partially balances a pressure jump between the two sides of an interface. In this paper, we show that the interface pressure is equal to the trace of the matrix product of the curvature tensor and the Cauchy stress tensor in the tangent plane. We derive the theory for interfaces in both 2-D and 3-D, and present numerical discretizations for computing the quality over triangulated surfaces.