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Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2017, Tutora: Aurora Hernández-Machado

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In this work we will study the fluctuations of the red blood cell membrane where either bending or
surface tension energy is present. This work will be based on a previously proposed phase field model
for cellular membranes [1, 2] but including a thermal-driven noise. We simulated the fluctuations
generated by this thermal noise in a membrane and compared them with recent experimental data
for two morphologies of RBC cells of a discocyte and a spherocyte cell shapes. We derived the
correlation function for the phase field order parameter and computed the correlation function of
our numerical simulations and then we compared our results with the experimental data.