Collective Langevin Dynamics of Flexible Cytoskeletal Fibers
arXiv:0903.5178 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/11/427
Abstract
We develop a numerical method to simulate mechanical objects in a viscous medium at a scale where inertia is negligible. Fibers, spheres and other voluminous objects are represented with points. Different types of connections are used to link the points together and in this way create composite mechanical structures. The motion of such structures in a Brownian environment is described by a first-order multivariate Langevin equation. We propose a computationally efficient method to integrate the equation, and illustrate the applicability of the method to cytoskeletal modeling with several examples.
27 pages, 10 figures
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