For an animal cell, cytokinesis is the process by which a cell divides its cytoplasm to produce two daughter cells. A new mathematical model has been developed for the simulation of cytokinesis. The proposed model is robust and realistic in deciding t...
For an animal cell, cytokinesis is the process by which a cell divides its cytoplasm to produce two daughter cells. A new mathematical model has been developed for the simulation of cytokinesis. The proposed model is robust and realistic in deciding the position of the cleavage furrow. We use an immersed boundary method to track numerically the morphology of cell membrane during cell division process. We perform numerical simulations of axisymmetric cells to use sufficient resolution and see three-dimensional effects. We investigate the effects of each model parameters and compare a numerical result with the experimental data.