Kovalevskaya rods and Kovalevskaya waves

The Kirchhoff analogy for elastic rods establishes the equivalence between the solutions of the classical spinning top and the stationary solutions of the Kirchhoff model for thin elastic rods with circular cross-sections. In this paper the Kirchhoff analogy is further generalized to show that the c...

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Main Authors: Goriely, A, Nizette, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000