Ordered arrays of carbon nanotubes (CNT) are promising elements of nanoelectromechanical
systems based on transformation of electromagnetic fields into mechanical motion. Simulation of these
phenomena accounting various nonlinear interactions can be realized on the basis of macroelectrodynamics
of moving media, theory of elasticity and van der Waals interactions’ phenomenological theory. The balance
equations of mass, momentum, angular momentum and energy as well as entropy inequality describing
interacting continua of the mass, electric charge and internal spin are presented. To include van der Waals
forces the additional terms are introduced into these equations which transform the system into indegro-
differencial one. It is shown that integral terms can be neglected if the gap between tubes is greater than CNT
outer diameter. The occurrence of multiple resonant vibrations of ordered CNT arrays is characteristic of
them. Solving the system numerically the essential influence of van der Waals forces on CNT array resonant
frequencies was proved
