Fig. 2. Geometry of the domain considered in finite-element DNS of cell dehydration at increasing values of time.
a (Supplementary Movie 2) Cell undergoing dehydration, before plasmolysis, and reducing its height along z-direction. b (Supplementary Movie 3) Cell undergoing dehydration, after plasmolysis, and reducing its lateral sizes along x- and y-directions. Liquid streamlines are displayed in red in (a, b). c Vector field depicting the drag force acting for t < tP on an ellipsoid with dimensions and position comparable to the nucleus of cell 1 in Fig. 1