Magnetically-induced buckling of a whirling conducting rod with applications to electrodynamic space tethers

DOI10.1007/S00332-010-9059-9zbMATH Open1254.74074arXiv0810.3668OpenAlexW1994406011MaRDI QIDQ989647FDOQ989647

Authors: J. Martínez 

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effect of a magnetic field on the behaviour of a slender conducting elastic structure, motivated by stability problems of electrodynamic space tethers. Both statical (buckling) and dynamical (whirling) instability are considered and we also compute post-buckling configurations. The equations used are the geometrically exact Kirchhoff equations. Magnetic buckling of a welded rod is found to be described by a surprisingly degenerate bifurcation, which is unfolded when both transverse anisotropy of the rod and angular velocity are considered. By solving the linearised equations about the (quasi-) stationary solutions we find various secondary instabilities. Our results are relevant for current designs of electrodynamic space tethers and potentially for future applications in nano- and molecular wires.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3668

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zbMATH Keywords

Hopf bifurcationKirchhoff equationsdegenerate pitchfork bifurcationsmagnetic bucklingrod mechanicsspinning electrodynamic tether

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Bifurcation and buckling (74G60)

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