The three-dimensional motion of slender
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Shay Gueron; Konstantin Levit-Gurevich
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper models the dynamics of a threeβdimensional inextensible filament, as a function of a given velocity distribution along its centreline. This geometric problem has various applications in physics, engineering and biology, e.g. the dynamics of vortex lines, the motion of bacteri