The many faces of elastica
This book is addressed to students, Ph.D. students and postdocs interested in the applications of differential geometry. The main investigations concern the equation \( \dot{k}^{2} = P_{4}(k) \), where \( k \) is the curvature of plane curve and \( P_{4}(k) \) is a fourth-degree polynomial with real coefficients. Such polynomial can be found in the studies of the shape of elastic cylindrical membranes under pressure, and the equation is known as the equation of the generalized elastics. The book consists of 6 chapters. In Chapter 1 main definitions and results from differential geometry of curves and surfaces are presented in connection with membrane shapes. Some results from variational calculus, such as the Euler-Lagrange equation, are presented as well. Chapter 2 deals with Serret curves. Frenet-Serret equations are studied as dynamical systems. The methods of investigation are related to Euler elastics. This new technique allows the Sturm spirals and their generalizations, and the Serret curves and their generalizations to be parametrized explicitly. The next chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 are devoted to the study of biological membranes. Chapter 3 is an introduction to the membranology. Chapter 4 deals with the equilibria of the membranes from a mechanical point of view. The equilibrium surface is parametrized explicitly via elliptic integrals of first and second kind. In Chapter 5 the Canham and Ou-Yang and Helfrich models of membranes are studied as an extensions of Euler's elasticas from an analytical point of view. In Chapter 6, an explicit solution for several models is conctructed. Mathematical models of the Cole experiment are presented as well.
- New developments on the p-Willmore energy of surfaces
- Willmore-like energies and elastic curves with potential
- Explicit parameterizations of non-bending torus-like surfaces
- A plethora of non-bending surfaces of revolution: classifications and explicit parameterizations
- Further deformations of the axially-symmetric non-bending surfaces
- The spiric sections of Perseus and the uniform parameterizations of the Cassinian ovals
- Stationary soap films with vertical potentials
- Analytical descriptions of Perseus spirics
- Self-contact of a flexible loop under uniform hydrostatic pressure
- Torus-like balloons
- The rectifications of the Cassinian ovals: third round
- Elastic curves and phase transitions
- On the planar \textit{elastica}, stress, and material stress
- Geometric methods in the elastic theory of membranes in liquid crystal phases
- Elastic curves and surfaces under long-range forces: a geometric approach
- ``The fabric of the universe is most perfect: Euler's research on elastic curves
- Mathematical Models for Elastic Structures
- Geometric methods in the elastic theory of membranes in liquid crystal phases
- Soft matter: mathematical models of smart materials
- A new characterization for classical Bernoulli-Euler elastic curves in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)
- Explicit solution of the focus locus problem for the harmonic oscillator orbits in the plane
- New and old parameterizations of the Cassinian ovals and some applications of them
- Numerical ranges of the real \(2\times 2\) matrices derived by first principles
- Geometry of the ovoids: reptilian eggs and similar symmetric forms
- Geometry of the ovoids: avian eggs and similar asymmetric forms
- Integrability in a nonlinear model of swing oscillatory motion
- Yet another mathematical model of eggs: two-parametric Brandt's shapes
- Existence and uniqueness of s-curve segments of tensioned elastica satisfying geometric Hermite interpolation conditions
- Elastic membranes spanning deformable curves
- On the shape of the red blood cells
- Stability analysis of Euler's elastica ring using harmonic balance
- Verification of 2/3 power law for symmetrical eggs
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