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Variational Principles For Spin Systems And The Kirchhoff Rod
We obtain the affine Euler-Poincare equations by standard Lagrangian reduction and deduce the associated Clebsch-constrained variational principle. These results are illustrated in deriving the equations of motion for continuum spin systems and Kirchhoff's rod, where they provide a unified geometric interpretation.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000207826700002
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Publication date
2009
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Volume
1
Start page
417
End page
444
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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December 16, 2011
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