| pubmed-article:12513304 | pubmed:abstractText | The effect of strong shear flow on highly fluctuating lamellar systems stabilized by intermembrane collisions via the Helfrich interaction is studied. Advection enters the microscopic equation of motion for a single membrane via a nonlinear coupling. Upon coarse-graining the theory for a single bilayer up to the length scale of the collision length, at which a hydrodynamic description applies, an additional dynamical coupling is generated which is of the form of a wave-vector-dependent tension that is nonlinear in the applied shear rate. This new term has consequences for the effects of strong flow on the stability and dynamics of lamellar surfactant phases. | lld:pubmed |
