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Membrane physics
Research interest driven by numerical simulation.
Two main classes of `membrane':
- fluid membranes
=> molecules can freely flow around each other for any shape of the
membrane surface
- crystalline or polymerized membranes
=> molecules held in place by strong covalent bonds.
At any finite temperature these membranes undergo thermal fluctuations and the
physical properties of the surface depend on the interplay between these
disordering effects and the ordering associated with a curvature-suppressing
energy term.
Complex phase structures exist between `smooth' surfaces, `crumpled' surfaces
and other more exotic possibilities.
`Teaching computational physics using Java', Simeon Warner, 16 Dec 1996.
Java for Science and Engineering Computation Workshop, Syracuse University, USA, 16 Dec 1996.