| Abstract | A central theme in D'Arcy Thompsons' book 'On Growth and Form' is that the biologists of his day were overemphasising evolution as the most important aspect of development but were neglecting the mechanics and physical laws that govern both organisms and the environment in which they exist as a fundamentally important when considering growth. To some extent the same can be said today. A large body of excellent work has been published in recent years that discusses the role of genetics in growth with scant regard to the physical processes that genes must initiate in order for development to occur. In this poster we will present a method that combines a finite element solver for diffusive processes on a three-dimensional sheet, along with an elasto-mechanical finite-element solver which can simulate growth on the same sheet. This technique is motivated by specific examples, along with experimental data. |
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