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most citedA consistent treatment of link and writhe for open rods, and their relation to end rotation

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math-ph2004

Self-contact for rods on cylinders

G. H. M. van der Heijden, M. A. Peletier, R. Planqué

We study self-contact phenomena in elastic rods that are constrained to lie on a cylinder. By choosing a particular set of variables to describe the rod centerline the variational…

math-ph2003★ 2 cited

A consistent treatment of link and writhe for open rods, and their relation to end rotation

Gert H. M. van der Heijden, Mark A. Peletier, Robert Planqué

We combine and extend the work of Alexander & Antman \cite{alexander.82} and Fuller \cite{fuller.71,fuller.78} to give a framework within which precise definitions can be given of…