Fluctuating elastic filaments under distributed loads

MCB Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-231

  Su, Tianxiang ^a   Purohit, Prashant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FORCES; CONTINUUM THEORY; DISTRIBUTED FORCES; DISTRIBUTED LOADING; DISTRIBUTED LOADS; ELASTIC FILAMENT; FORCE-EXTENSION RELATIONS; GAUSSIAN INTEGRAL; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; TANGENTIAL COMPONENTS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GROUND STATE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

LOADS (FORCES);

ACTIN; BIOPOLYMER; DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACTINS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPOLYMERS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA; ELASTICITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80052932708     PISSN: 15565297     EISSN: 15565300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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