Evolving a Kirchhoff elastic rod without self-intersections

DOI10.1007/s10910-008-9383-6zbMath1222.92030OpenAlexW2073212853MaRDI QIDQ2271180

Chun-Chi Lin, Hartmut R. Schwetlick

Publication date: 6 August 2009

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-008-9383-6

zbMATH Keywords

polymerswrithegeometric flowsfourth-order parabolic equationsbending long DNA molecules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Biophysics (92C05)

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