Theory of self-contact in Kirchhoff rods with applications to supercoiling of knotted and unknotted DNA plasmids

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1820, 2004, Pages 1281-1299

  Coleman, Bernard D ^a   Swigon, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact problems; DNA topology; Elastic rods

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042579449     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1393     Document Type: Article

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