Cosserat Theory
Deformation of an elastic rod in a magnetic field
This was my PhD which was undertaken at UCL with Prof. Gert van der Heijden. It was funded the EPSRC.
Journal publications can be found here:
- Integrability of a conducting elastic rod in a magnetic field
- Spatial chaos of an extensible conducting rod in a uniform magnetic field
Conference proceeding can be found here:
- The buckling of magneto-strictive Ccsserat rods
- Localisation of a twisted conducting rod in a uniform magnetic field: the Hamiltonian-Hopf-Hopf bifurcation
A presentation can be found here: