3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Mechanical stress induced by the polymerisation of an active gel near a surface
Kristiana Mihali, Dennis Wörthmüller, Pierre Sens
Actin flow in the cortical cytoskeleton underneath the cell membrane generates mechanical stresses that shape the cell surface. We study this mechanism using a hydrodynamic model o…
physics.flu-dyn2025
IRENE: a fluId layeR finitE-elemeNt softwarE
Dennis Wörthmüller, Gaetano Ferraro, Pierre Sens +1
We present a finite-element software library, IRENE, which allows to solve numerically the dynamics of a viscous fluid layer embedded in three-dimensional space. Unlike finite-elem…
cond-mat.soft2025
Curvature instability of an active gel growing on a wavy membrane
Kristiana Mihali, Dennis Wörthmüller, Pierre Sens
Cell shape changes are largely controlled by the actin cytoskeleton, a dynamic filament network beneath the plasma membrane. Several cell types can form extended free-standing prot…