On the geometric flow of kirchhoff elastic rods

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 720-736

  Lin, Chun Chi ^a   Schwetlick, Hartmut R ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fourth order; Geometric flows; Kirchhoff elastic rods

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

ELASTIC ENERGY; FOURTH ORDER; GEOMETRIC FLOWS; KIRCHHOFF ELASTIC RODS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

EID: 19944376166     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139903431713     Document Type: Article

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