Elastohydrodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Patterning in the Immunological Synapse
Table 2
By substituting the scaled variables in Eqs 1–4; p(x, y, t) = p*(x, y, t)p0 = p*(x, y, t)C0 κl2, h(x, y, t) = h(x, y, t)*l2, x = x*L, y = y*L, t = t*τμ, Ci(x, y, t) = Ci(x, y, t)*C0 gives the non-dimensional numbers above.
These non-dimensional numbers characterize the relative influence of membrane mechanics, protein kinetics, geometry and hydrodynamics.