Simulating the motion of the leech: A biomechanical application of DAEs

Numerical Algorithms

Volumn 19, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Alscher, Christian ^a   Beyn, Wolf Jürgen ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lagrange's equations of motion; Semi explicit methods; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264140     PISSN: 10171398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019146221279     Document Type: Article

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