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Michael Nestler
Researcher at Dresden University of Technology
Publications - 19
Citations - 299
Michael Nestler is an academic researcher from Dresden University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Surface (mathematics) & Tensor. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications receiving 204 citations.
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Non-invasive perturbations of intracellular flow reveal physical principles of cell organization
Matthäus Mittasch,Peter Gross,Michael Nestler,Anatol Fritsch,Christiane Iserman,Mrityunjoy Kar,Matthias C. Munder,Axel Voigt,Simon Alberti,Stephan W. Grill,Moritz Kreysing +10 more
TL;DR: Focused-light-induced cytoplasmic streaming (FLUCS), a non-invasive technique, can be used to invert asymmetric cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes and finds that asymmetriccell division is a binary decision based on gradually varying PAR polarization states.
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A finite element approach for vector- and tensor-valued surface PDEs
TL;DR: In this paper, a Cartesian componentwise description of the covariant derivative of tangential tensor fields of any degree on Riemannian manifolds is derived, which allows to reformulate any vector- and tensor-valued surface PDE in a form suitable to be solved by established tools for scalar-valued surfaces PDEs.
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Orientational Order on Surfaces: The Coupling of Topology, Geometry, and Dynamics
TL;DR: The influence of geometric properties on realizations of the Poincaré–Hopf theorem is demonstrated and examples where the energy is decreased by introducing additional orientational defects are shown.
Orientational order on surfaces - the coupling of topology, geometry and dynamics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the numerical investigation of surface bound orientational order using unit tangential vector fields by means of a gradient flow equation of a weak surface Frank-Oseen energy.
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Nematic liquid crystals on curved surfaces: a thin film limit.
TL;DR: In this article, a thin film limit of a Landau-de-Gennes Q-tensor model is considered and the resulting tensor-valued surface partial differential equation is numerically solved to demonstrate the tight coupling of elastic and bulk free energy with geometric properties.