Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this work we investigate the use of the Potts Cellular Model in simulations of the water droplets on flat hydrophobic and pillarlike surfaces surrounded by gas. Eight tests were chosen to validate the model, based on experimental and theoretical results: (1) the measurement of the contact angle on a flat hydrophobic surface; (2) the transition from Cassie to Wenzel states; (3) the measurement of the contact angle on the pillar-like structured surface in Wenzel and Cassie states; (4) the dependence of the contact angle on the roughness of the surface; (5) the measurement of the contact angle hysteresis; (6) the difference in angle hysteresis between Wenzel and Cassie states (7) the sliding of a droplet on inclined surfaces; and (8) the relationship between angle hysteresis and the velocity of the droplets on inclined surfaces. Our results are agree with the experimental and theoretical results suggesting that the Cellular Potts Model can be used as a tool in the theoretical studies these systems. / Neste trabalho investigamos a utilização do Modelo de Potts Celular na simulação de gotas de água sobre superfícies hidrofóbicas lisa e estruturada em pilares que pode apresentar comportamento superhidrofóbico em contato com gás. Oito testes foram escolhidos para validar o modelo, baseados em resultados experimentais e teóricos conhecidos: (1) a medida do ângulo de contato da gota sobre a superfície lisa; (2) a transição do regime Cassie para o regime Wenzel; (3) a medida do ângulo de contato da gota sobre a superfície estruturada; (4) a dependência do ângulo de contato com a rugosidade da superfície; (5) a medida da histerese do ângulo de contato; (6) a diferença na histerese do ângulo nos regimes Cassie e Wenzel; (7) ângulo crítico de deslize sobre superfícies lisas; (8) a relação entre a histerese e velocidade de deslize da gota. Nossos resultados concordam com os resultados experimentais sugerindo que o modelo de Potts Celular pode ser usado como uma ferramenta no estudo teórico destes sistemas.

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Collective cell migration is an important process during biological development and tissue repair but may turn malignant during tumor invasion. Mathematical and computational models are essential to unravel the mechanisms of self-organization that underlie the emergence of collective migration from the interactions among individual cells. Recently, guidance-by-followers was identified as one such underlying mechanism of collective cell migration in the embryo of the zebrafish. This poses the question of how the guidance stimuli are integrated when multiple cells interact simultaneously. In this study, we extend a recent individual-based model by an integration step of the vectorial guidance stimuli and compare model predictions obtained for different variants of the mechanism (arithmetic mean of stimuli, dominance of stimulus with largest transmission interface, and dominance of most head-on stimulus). Simulations are carried out and quantified within the modeling and simulation framework Morpheus. Collective cell migration is found to be robust and qualitatively identical for all considered variants of stimulus integration. Moreover, this study highlights the role of individual-based modeling approaches for understanding collective phenomena at the population scale that emerge from cell-cell interactions.