Published April 3, 2006 | Version v1
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Fourth order elastic chiral filament model and the centerline of uniform Kirchhoff elastic rod

Creators

  • 1. School for Theoretical Physics and Department of Applied Physics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082 (China) and Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China)
  • 2. School for Theoretical Physics and Department of Applied Physics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082 (China)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5005 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics and the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (China)
  • 5. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080 (China)

Description

The general fourth order elastic filament model originally proposed to explain the behavior of chiral polymer is demonstrated to contain the closed configurations given by the centerline of uniform Kirchhoff rods in equilibrium

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2005.12.058;
PII
S0375-9601(05)01859-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
352
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 358-361
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37068699
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRALITY; CLOSED CONFIGURATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM; FILAMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMERS; RODS
Descriptors DEC
MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.