Prof. Martine Ben Amar

  Research interests

• Tumour modeling
• Physics of the biological membrane and the cell
• Nonlinear physics and instabilities
• Growth of soft tissues
• Dynamics of the moving contact line
• Thin film of liquid crystals

  Selected publications (complete list)

• "Effective line tension and contact angles between membrane domains in biphasic vesicles."
  M. Trejo and M. Ben Amar.
  (2010) submitted to Soft matter. .

• "Localized growth of layered tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, (2010) in press .

• "Swelling instability of surface-attached gels as a model of soft tissue growth under geometric constraints"
  M. Ben Amar and P. Ciarletta
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58 (2010) 935–954 .

  External collaborators

• Jean-Marc Allain (Ecole Polytechnique)
• Anke Lindner (ESPCI)
• Eric Clément (ESPCI)
• D. Bonn (University of Amsterdam and LPS, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
• Alain Goriely (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona)
• Michael Tabor (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona)
• Anne-Marie Cazabat (LPS)
• Gaetano Napoli
• Yves Pomeau
• Yves Couder