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Here are the slides for my final presentation for ES 241.  During the presentation, a few suggestions were made, which I plan to follow up on.  Please check back here or subscribe for updates.

This is a great problem.   Getting the boundary conditions right is going to be a real challenge.  They should be able to be implmented as slip on the free boundary, possibly as a weak form contribution. Instead of posting an article, I have attached a document about this sort of problem in 2D from a model implemented in Comsol Multiphysics.  This document provides some basic analysis of the problem, and may be of some use here.

The biology of the inversion process in Volvox carteri is examined, and a coupled mechanical and kinetic model is proposed.  See attached proposal for details. The presentation given is also attached here, as well as the final paper.  Also, a movie of the simulation that made all of the work wroth while, the inversion of a half-sphere, is attached here as well.  Note: The file inversion2bw.doc is a movie, just download it and change the extension to .avi.  This has to be done since iMechanica doesn't allow attachment of .avi files directly.