Environmental bias and elastic curves on surfaces

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/35/355201zbMATH Open1296.70019arXiv1405.7387OpenAlexW3102665373MaRDI QIDQ2921137FDOQ2921137

Authors: Dulce María Valencia, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Jemal Guven 

Publication date: 30 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The behavior of an elastic curve bound to a surface will reflect the geometry of its environment. This may occur in an obvious way: the curve may deform freely along directions tangent to the surface, but not along the surface normal. However, even if the energy itself is symmetric in the curve's geodesic and normal curvatures, which control these modes, very distinct roles are played by the two. If the elastic curve binds preferentially on one side, or is itself assembled on the surface, not only would one expect the bending moduli associated with the two modes to differ, binding along specific directions, reflected in spontaneous values of these curvatures, may be favored. The shape equations describing the equilibrium states of a surface curve described by an elastic energy accommodating environmental factors will be identified by adapting the method of Lagrange multipliers to the Darboux frame associated with the curve. The forces transmitted to the surface along the surface normal will be determined. Features associated with a number of different energies, both of physical relevance and of mathematical interest, are described. The conservation laws associated with trajectories on surface geometries exhibiting continuous symmetries are also examined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7387

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesvariational principleselastic curves onsurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30)

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