Static Kirchhoff Rods under the Action of External Forces: Integration via Runge-Kutta Method
Figure 5
Effect of anisotropy in a filament with decreasing shear modulus. The original case is a classic Frenet helix with . For all cases above and . As decreases the filament becomes less rigid against torsion. The parameters used to generate each curve are in the text; is the vertical direction.
