Collective Langevin dynamics of flexible cytoskeletal fibers

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We develop a numerical method to simulate mechanical objects in a viscous medium at a scale where inertia is negligible. Fibers, spheres and other voluminous objects are represented with points. Different types of connections are used to link the points together and in this way create composite mechanical structures. The motion of such structures in a Brownian environment is described by a first-order multivariate Langevin equation. We propose a computationally efficient method to integrate the equation, and illustrate the applicability of the method to cytoskeletal modeling with several examples. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

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Nedelec, F., & Foethke, D. (2007). Collective Langevin dynamics of flexible cytoskeletal fibers. New Journal of Physics, 9. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/9/11/427

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