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• Mémoire pour l'habilitation à diriger des recherches :
  Enroulement, contact et vibrations de tiges élastiques
  Juillet 2009, 97 pages (pdf) (2.4 Mo).


• PhD dissertation:
  Dissipative dynamical systems : the shape of the Lorenz chaotic attractor and the number of Liénard limit cycles
  November 1998, 178 pages (ps.gz) (1.7 Mo) or (pdf)  (2.4 Mo)

International journals (with refeering procedure):

2012:

• M. Rivetti and S. Neukirch
  Instabilities in a drop-strip system: a simplified model
  Proc. R. Soc. A, 468 (2012) 1304-1324: more info here.


• J. Marko and S. Neukirch
  Competition between curls and plectonemes near the buckling transition of stretched supercoiled DNA
  Physical Review E, 85 (2012) 011908: more info here.


• S. Neukirch, J. Frelat, A. Goriely, and C. Maurini
  Vibrations of post-buckled rods: The singular inextensible limit
  Journal of sound and Vibration, 331 (2012) 704-720: more info here.

2011:

• A. Antkowiak, B. Audoly, C. Josserand, S. Neukirch, and M. Rivetti
  Instant fabrication and selection of folded structures using drop impact
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 108 (2011) 10400-10404: more info here.


• S. Neukirch and J.F. Marko
  Analytical Description of Extension, Torque, and Supercoiling Radius of a Stretched Twisted DNA
  Physical Review Letters, 106 (2011) 138104: more info here.

2010:

• Helmut Kirchner and S. Neukirch
  Friction of F-actin knots
  Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 3 (2010) 121-123: more info here.

2009:

• S. Neukirch and Eugene L. Starostin
  Reply to “Comment on ‘Writhe formulas and antipodal points in plectonemic DNA configurations’ ”
  Physical Review E, 80 (2009) 063902: more info here.


• Alain Goriely, S. Neukirch, and Andrew Hausrath
  Polyhelices through n points
  International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 5 #2 (2009) 118-132: more info here.


• N. Clauvelin, B. Audoly and S. Neukirch
  Matched asymptotic expansions for twisted elastic knots: a self-contact problem with non-trivial contact topology
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57 #9 (2009) 1623--1656 : more info here.


• N. Clauvelin, B. Audoly and S. Neukirch
  Elasticity and electrostatics of plectonemic DNA
  Biophysical Journal, 96 #9 (2009) 3716--3723 : more info here.

2008:

• S. Neukirch and E. L. Starostin
  Writhe formulas and antipodal points in plectonemic DNA configurations
  Physical Review E, 78 041912 (2008) : more info here.


• Alain Goriely, Andrew Hausrath, and S. Neukirch
  The differential geometry of proteins and its applications to structure determination
  Biophysical Reviews and Letters, 3 (2008) 77-101: more info here.


• S. Neukirch, Alain Goriely, and Andrew Hausrath
  Elastic coiled-coils act as energy buffers in the ATP synthase
  International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 43 #10 (2008) 1064-1073: more info here.


• N. Clauvelin, B. Audoly, and S. Neukirch
  Mechanical Response of Plectonemic DNA: An Analytical Solution
  Macromolecules, 41 (2008) 4479--4483: more info here.


• S. Neukirch, Alain Goriely, and Andrew Hausrath
  Chirality of coiled-coils: elasticity matters
  Physical Review Letters, 100 (2008) 038105: more info here.

2007:

• Nicolas Clauvelin, Basile Audoly, and S. Neukirch
  Analytical results for the plectonemic response of supercoiled DNA
  Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, 14 (2007) 95--101: more info here.


• B. Audoly, N. Clauvelin and S. Neukirch
  Elastic knots
  Physical Review Letters, 99 164301 (2007): more info here.


• S. Neukirch
  Comment on 'Elliptic integral solutions of spatial elastica of a thin straight rod bent under concentrated terminal forces'
  Meccanica, 42 (2007) 609-610: more info here.


• S. Neukirch, Benoît Roman, Benoît de Gaudemaris, and José Bico
  Elasto-capillary interactions: Piercing an interface with an elastic rod
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 55 (2007) 1212-1235: more info here.

2006:

• Alain Goriely and S. Neukirch
  The mechanics of climbing and attachment in twining plants
  Physical Review Letters, 97 (2006) 184302: more info here.

2005:

• V. G. A. Goss, G. H. M. van der Heijden, J. M. T. Thompson, S. Neukirch
  Experiments on Snap Buckling, Hysteresis and Loop Formation in Twisted Rods
  Experimental Mechanics, 45 (2005) 101-111: more info here.


• B. Audoly and S. Neukirch
  Fragmentation of rods by cascading cracks: why spaghetti do not break in half
  Physical Review Letters, 95 (2005) 095505: more info here.

2004:

• S. Neukirch
  Extracting DNA twist rigidity from experimental supercoiling data
  Physical Review Letters, 93 #19 (2004) 198107: more info here.


• Michael E. Henderson & S. Neukirch
  Classification of the spatial equilibria of the clamped elastica: numerical continuation of the solution set
  International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14 #4 (2004) 1223-1239: more info here.

2003:

• G. van der Heijden, J.M.T. Thompson & S. Neukirch
  A variational approach to loaded ply structures
  Journal of Vibration and Control 9 (2003) 175-185 : more info here.


• G. van der Heijden, S. Neukirch, V. G. A. Goss & J.M.T. Thompson
  Instability and self-contact phenomena in the writhing of clamped rods
  International Journal of Mechanical Science 45 (2003) 161-196 : more info here.

2002:

• S. Neukirch, G. van der Heijden & J.M.T. Thompson
  Writhing instabilities of twisted rods: from infinite to finite length
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 50 #6 (2002) 1175-1191: more info here.


• S. Neukirch & Michael E. Henderson
  Classification of the spatial equilibria of the clamped elastica: symmetries and zoology of solutions
  Journal of Elasticity, 68 (2002) 95-121: more info here.


• S. Neukirch & G. van der Heijden
  Geometry and mechanics of uniform n-plies: from engineering ropes to biological filaments
  Journal of Elasticity, 69 (2002) 41-72: more info here.


• J.M.T. Thompson, G. van der Heijden & S. Neukirch
  Super-Coiling of DNA Plasmids: Mechanics of the Generalised Ply
  Proc. R. Soc. London. Series A 458 (2002) 959-985 : more info here.

2001:

• S. Neukirch
  Integrals of motion and semi-permeable surfaces to bound the amplitude of a plasma instability
  Physical Review E 63 #3 (2001) 036202 : more info here.

2000:

• S. Neukirch & Hector Giacomini
  Shape of attractors for three-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems
  Physical Review E 61 #5 (2000) 5098 : more info here.

1999:

• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  Comment on `Liénard systems, limit cycles, and Melnikov theory'
  Physical Review E 59 #2 (1999) 2483 : more info here.

1998:

• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  Algebraic approximations to bifurcation curves of limit cycles for the Liénard equation
  Physics Letters A 244 (1998) 53-58 : more info here.


• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  Improving a method for the study of limit cycles of the Liénard equation
  Physical Review E 57 #6 (1998) 6573 : more info here.

1997:

• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  Integrals of motion and the shape of the attractor for the Lorenz model
  Physics Letters A 227 (1997) 309-318 : more info here.


• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  Number of limit cycles of the Liénard equation
  Physical Review E 56 #4 (1997) 3809 : more info here.

French journals (with refeering procedure):

• Etienne Guyon, S. Neukirch, et Benoît Roman
  Rapprochement mécaniciens-physiciens
  Reflets de la physique 17 (Déc 2009) 32-33: more info here.


• S. Neukirch and Alain Goriely
  La chiralité des protéines fibreuses : une affaire d'élasticité
  Reflets de la physique 9 (Mai 2008) 11-13: more info here.


• B. Audoly and S. Neukirch
  Rupture des tiges en flexion
  Mécanique et Industries 6 (2005) 365--368: more info here.

Proceeding of international conferences (with refeering procedure):

• S. Neukirch, Nicolas Clauvelin & Basile Audoly
  Elastic and electrostatic model for DNA in rotation-extension experiments
  Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics, Woods Hole, Mass., USA (2008), IUTAM Bookseries Vol. 16, Springer 2010: more info here.


• Nicolas Clauvelin, S. Neukirch & Basile Audoly
  Analytical Results For The Plectonemic Response Of Supercoiled DNA
  Proceedings of the third International Conference on Multiscale Modeling, Freiburg (2006): more info here.


• S. Neukirch & Alain Goriely
  Twining Plants: How Thick Should their Supports Be?
  Proceedings of the 5th Plant Biomechanics Conference, edited by Lennard Salmen, Stockholm, Sweden (2006): more info here.


• Hector Giacomini & S. Neukirch
  On the number of limit cycles of the Liénard equations
  Proceedings of the Third Catalan Days on Applied Mathematics, edited by J. Chavarriga and J. Giné, Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain (1996) : more info here.

Proceeding of national conferences (with refeering procedure):

• M. Rivetti, S. Neukirch, C. Josserand, B. Audoly, A. Antkowiak
  Repliement élastocapillaire contrôlé par un impact de goutte
  Compte-rendus de la 13ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2010 : more info here.


• Nicolas Clauvelin, Basile Audoly, S. Neukirch
  Contact au sein d'une tige élastique nouée
  Compte-rendus du 19ème congrès français de mécanique à Marseille, 2009 : more info here.


• Nicolas Clauvelin, Basile Audoly et S. Neukirch
  Elasticité des noeuds
  Compte-rendus de la 11ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2008 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch, Benoît Roman, Benoît de Gaudemaris, and José Bico
  Les poils perçants : un exemple de flambage capillaire
  Compte-rendus du 18ème congrès français de mécanique au Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble, 2007 : more info here.


• Basile Audoly & S. Neukirch
  Rupture des tiges en flexion
  Compte-rendus du 17ème congrès français de mécanique à l'Université de Technologie de Troyes, 2005 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch & Basile Audoly
  Dynamique et fragmentation de tiges fragiles : Pourquoi les spaghetti cassent en trois morceaux ?
  Compte-rendus de la 8ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2005 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch
  Estimation de la rigidité de torsion de l'ADN
  Compte-rendus de la 7ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2004 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch & G. van der Heijden
  La triple hélice : vers une mécanique du collagène
  Compte-rendus de la 5ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2002 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch, J.M.T. Thompson & G. van der Heijden
  Filaments enroulés en paires torsadées : application aux plasmides d'A.D.N
  Compte-rendus de la 4ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 2001 : more info here.


• S. Neukirch
  Intégrabilité et attracteurs chaotiques
  Compte-rendus de la 2ème rencontre du Non Linéaire à l'I.H.P., 1999 : more info here.

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