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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

A FINITE ELEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR BULK-SURFACE COUPLED PDES TO SOLVE MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEMS IN BIOPHYSICS.

Alessandro Contri, André Massing, Padmini Rangamani

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Alessandro ContriDepartment of Mathematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
André MassingDepartment of Mathematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Padmini RangamaniDepartment of Pharmacology, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5953-4347

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Biophysical modeling of inward and outward membrane curvature generationR35GM158446 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Padmini Rangamani · 2025 to 2026
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Abstract

We consider moving boundary problems for biophysics and introduce a new computational framework to handle the complexity of the bulk-surface PDEs. In our framework, interpretability is maintained by adapting the fast, generalizable and accurate structure preservation scheme in [29]. We show that mesh distortion is mitigated by adopting the pioneering work of [36], which is tied to an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) framework. We test our algorithms accuracy on moving surfaces with boundary for the following PDEs: advection-diffusion-reaction equations, phase-field models of Cahn-Hilliard type, and Helfrich energy gradient flows. We performed convergence studies for all the schemes introduced to demonstrate accuracy. We use a staggered approach to achieve coupling and further verify the convergence of this coupling using numerical experiments. Finally, we demonstrate broad applicability of our work by simulating state-of-the-art tests of biophysical models that involve membrane deformation.

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35R3765N3074K1576T99Biophysicsbulk-surface couplingmesh redistributionmoving boundary problemsmultiphysics couplingstructure preservation

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PMID41278638
PMCPMC12636409

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