ISSN:
1573-2681
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
Abstract In this paper we consider large-amplitude, steadily rotating states of a flexible, nonlinearly elastic, current-carrying wire in a magnetic field. Our formulation leads naturally to a multiparameter bifurcation problem. A detailed local analysis is ostensibly intractable, due to the presence of the rotation group SO(2). However, we identify an additional, more subtle symmetry, which enables a standard local bifurcation analysis via group-theoretic methods. In contrast to well known methods of local equivariant bifurcation theory, we first exploit the group invariance of the full problem (before performing a local reduction) to construct a reduced problem that is also amenable to a global analysis, which we provide.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00115559
