Bending of a surface with spontaneous curvature

ORAL

Abstract

We interest to curvature deformations that can be described by Helfrich's energy: a quadratic mean curvature term, and a gaussian curvature term. When the surface is not strictly incompressible and presents a nonzero spontaneous mean curvature, we focus on simple cases to show that a priori determination of key features (spontaneous curvature, equilibrium area) may be biased according the expression taken for the energy.

Authors

  • Catherine Quilliet

    LIPhy, Univ. Grenoble, France

  • Philippe Marmottant

    LIPhy, Univ. Grenoble, France

  • Alexandre Farutin

    LIPhy, Univ. Grenoble, France

  • Chaouqi Misbah

    LIPhy, Univ. Grenoble, France