Static Kirchhoff Rods under the Action of External Forces: Integration via Runge-Kutta Method

Figure 8

Plots of log|𝐁(𝑘₁(𝑖),𝑘₂(𝑗))| for 20×20 solutions of Kirchoff loops around 𝑘₁(𝑖=10)=0.0, 𝑘₂(𝑗=10)=0.1 with 𝑖 and 𝑗 given by (63). In (a), Δ𝑘₁=Δ𝑘₂=0.001 and in (b) Δ𝑘₁=Δ𝑘₂=0.00001.

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(b)