Area-constrained planar elastica

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Arreaga, Guillermo ^a   Capovilla, Riccardo ^a   Chryssomalakos, Chryssomalis ^b   Guven, Jemal ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; RIGIDITY;

ENERGY FUNCTIONAL QUADRATIC; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATION; GEODESIC CURVATURES; PLANAR ELASTICA;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 41349099358     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031801     Document Type: Article

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