3 papers
q-bio.CB2016
Mechanics and polarity in cell motility
Davide Ambrosi, Anna Zanzottera
The motility of a fish keratocyte on a flat substrate exhibits two distinct regimes: the non-migrating and the migrating one. In both configurations the shape is fixed in time and,…
cond-mat.stat-mech2003
Percolation, Morphogenesis, and Burgers Dynamics in Blood Vessels Formation
A. Gamba, D. Ambrosi, A. Coniglio +6
Experiments of in vitro formation of blood vessels show that cells randomly spread on a gel matrix autonomously organize to form a connected vascular network. We propose a simple m…
nlin.CD2002
Instability of two interacting, quasi-monochromatic waves in shallow water
M. Onorato, D. Ambrosi, A. R. Osborne +1
We study the nonlinear interactions of waves with a doubled-peaked power spectrum in shallow water. The starting point is the prototypical equation for nonlinear uni-directional wa…