Lagrangian aspects of the Kirchhoff elastic rod

SIAM Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 605-618

  Langer, Joel ^a   Singer, David A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic curve; Elastic rod; Vortex filament

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLITONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ELASTIC CURVES; ELASTIC RODS; KIRCHHOFF ELASTIC ROD; LOCALIZED INDUCTION EQUATION;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 0030408358     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144593253290     Document Type: Article

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