Instabilities and geometry of growing tissues

Abstract

We derive a course grained, continuum model of the 2D vertex model, applicable for different underlying geometries, and allowing for analytical analysis of an otherwise numerical model. Using a geometric approach and out--of--equilibrium statistical mechanics, we calculate both mechanical and dynamical instabilities within a tissue, and their dependence on different variables, including activity, and disorder. Most notably, the tissue's response depends on the existence of mechanical residual stresses in the tissue. Thus, even freely growing tissues may exhibit a growth instability depending on food consumption. Using this geometric model we can readily distinct between elasticity and plasticity in a growing, flowing, tissue.

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