Chen Changjun, Saxena Rishu, Wei Guo-Wei
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Int J Biomed Imaging. 2010;2010:308627. doi: 10.1155/2010/308627. Epub 2010 Mar 9.
Viruses are infectious agents that can cause epidemics and pandemics. The understanding of virus formation, evolution, stability, and interaction with host cells is of great importance to the scientific community and public health. Typically, a virus complex in association with its aquatic environment poses a fabulous challenge to theoretical description and prediction. In this work, we propose a differential geometry-based multiscale paradigm to model complex biomolecule systems. In our approach, the differential geometry theory of surfaces and geometric measure theory are employed as a natural means to couple the macroscopic continuum domain of the fluid mechanical description of the aquatic environment from the microscopic discrete domain of the atomistic description of the biomolecule. A multiscale action functional is constructed as a unified framework to derive the governing equations for the dynamics of different scales. We show that the classical Navier-Stokes equation for the fluid dynamics and Newton's equation for the molecular dynamics can be derived from the least action principle. These equations are coupled through the continuum-discrete interface whose dynamics is governed by potential driven geometric flows.
病毒是能够引发流行病和大流行的感染因子。了解病毒的形成、进化、稳定性以及与宿主细胞的相互作用,对科学界和公共卫生而言至关重要。通常,与水生环境相关的病毒复合体给理论描述和预测带来了巨大挑战。在这项工作中,我们提出一种基于微分几何的多尺度范式来对复杂生物分子系统进行建模。在我们的方法中,曲面的微分几何理论和几何测度理论被用作一种自然手段,将水生环境流体力学描述的宏观连续域与生物分子原子描述的微观离散域相耦合。构建一个多尺度作用泛函作为统一框架,以推导不同尺度动力学的控制方程。我们表明,流体动力学的经典纳维 - 斯托克斯方程和分子动力学的牛顿方程可以从最小作用原理推导出来。这些方程通过连续 - 离散界面耦合,该界面的动力学由势驱动的几何流控制。