Methods for determining stability in continuum elastic-rod models of DNA

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1820, 2004, Pages 1301-1315

  Hoffman, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate points; Distinguished bifurcation diagrams; Elastic rod model; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042528270     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1382     Document Type: Article

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