Membrane dynamics in anisotropic media

Abstract eng:
Morphology and dynamics of soft structures depends on interactions with their environment. In the presence of anisotropic media, such as orthotropic gels or nematic liquid crystals, fluid anisotropy induces topological defects and long-range interactions between immersed particles. Understanding how anisotropic fluids deform particles and induce interactions over long distances is a theoretically and numerically challenging problem with applications to biological materials and soft device fabrication. In this paper we develop an immersed boundary method that efficiently simulates highly deformable particles in flowing liquid crystals.

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