The Unduloid
The Unduloid
First studied by Delaunay [1], the unduloid (or onduloid) is a surface of revolution of an elliptic catenary with constant nonzero mean curvature (in this case, the reciprocal of twice the major axis length, ). It can be obtained by tracing the focus of a rolling ellipse along a fixed line. This surface appears in fields like string theory [2] and carbon nanotubes [3].
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