Image-based model of the spectrin cytoskeleton for red blood cell simulation
Fig 2
Comparison between the continuum shear energy and the energy of a random network of worm-like chains.
(a) The triangulation associated with the random polymer network, (b) Relaxation to equilibrium of random network, (c)-(d) Comparison of energies from continuum shear formulation and random spring network on two periodic patches with R = 1 μm and R = 2 μm, respectively. The red curves are the corresponding energies computed from the continuum model using upper and lower values of measured shear moduli E obtained from the literature [9]. Error bars are computed by running simulations with several randomly generated networks.