PolyHoop: Soft particle and tissue dynamics with topological transitions


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2023-07-27

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Abstract

We present PolyHoop, a lightweight standalone C++ implementation of a mechanical model to simulate the dynamics of soft particles and cellular tissues in two dimensions. With only few geometrical and physical parameters, PolyHoop is capable of simulating a wide range of particulate soft matter systems: from biological cells and tissues to vesicles, bubbles, foams, emulsions, and other amorphous materials. The soft particles or cells are represented by continuously remodeling, non-convex, high-resolution polygons that can undergo growth, division, fusion, aggregation, and separation. With PolyHoop, a tissue or foam consisting of a million cells with high spatial resolution can be simulated on conventional laptop computers.

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2307.15006

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Cornell University

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v1

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Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); FOS: Physical sciences; Soft particle; Foam; Bubble; Cell; Tissue; Polygon

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03791 - Iber, Dagmar / Iber, Dagmar check_circle

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170930 - A 3D Cell-Based Simulation Framework for Morphogenetic Problems (SNF)

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