Soft catenaries
Using the classical catenary as a motivating example, we use slender-body theory to derive a general theory for thin filaments of arbitrary rheology undergoing large combined stretching and bending, which correctly accounts for the nonlinear geometry of deformation and uses integrated state variable...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013-05-09T19:46:38Z.
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