• Contents (7)
• List of Figures (9)
• 1 Introduction (15)
• 2 Continuum Model of Lipid Membranes (20)
  • 2.1 Introduction (20)
  • 2.2 Stretching and Compression (21)
  • 2.3 Shearing (22)
  • 2.4 Bending (22)
    • 2.4.1 Curvatures of a Surface (22)
    • 2.4.2 Monge Description (24)
• 3 Molecular Dynamics Method for Coarse Grained Model of Lipid Membranes (26)
  • 3.1 Introduction (26)
  • 3.2 Lipid and Protein Models (27)
  • 3.3 Simulation Setup (29)
• 4 Dynamical Properties of Lipid Membranes (32)
  • 4.1 Introduction (32)
  • 4.2 Clustering of Protein Inclusions in Lipid Bilayers (33)
  • 4.3 Friction Coefficient (35)
    • 4.3.1 Lipid Bilayer without Proteins (40)
    • 4.3.2 Lipid Bilayer with Protein Inclusions (43)
  • 4.4 Tilt Angle (46)
  • 4.5 Diffusion in Membranes (47)
    • 4.5.1 Diffusion coefficients and exponent (50)
    • 4.5.2 Diffusion of Lennard-Jones fluid (51)
    • 4.5.3 Diffusion of lipids (52)
    • 4.5.4 Diffusion of proteins (55)
  • 4.6 Conclusion (62)
• 5 Stability of Suspension flows (64)
  • 5.1 Introduction (64)
  • 5.2 Governing diffusion and momentum equations (66)
    • 5.2.1 Steady-state solutions (68)
    • 5.2.2 Perturbed equations and eigenvalue problem (71)
  • 5.3 Long-lived and unstable modes (75)
  • 5.4 Conclusions (80)
• 6 Membrane in Shear Flow: Continuum Approach (81)
  • 6.1 Introduction (81)
  • 6.2 Governing Momentum and diffusion equations (83)
  • 6.3 Perturbed equations and eigenvalue problem (87)
  • 6.4 Results (91)
  • 6.5 Conclusions (94)
• References (96)