Abstract: The vibrations of thin, elastic, circular disks such as musical cymbals, hard disk drives, and microscale resonators are significantly influenced by the presence of a surrounding fluid. The ...

Abstract: The aeroelastic stability of a thin, flexible disk rotating in an enclosed compressible fluid is investigated analytically through a discretization of the field equations of a rotating Kirchhoff ...

Abstract: The aeroelastic flutter of thin flexible webs severely limits their transport speeds and consequently the machine throughputs in a variety of paper, plastics, textiles, and sheet metal industries. ...

Abstract: Most of today's emerging nanotechnological applications such as nanoelectromechanical systems require comprehensive modeling, control and manipulation of objects, components and subsystems ranging ...

Abstract: Piezoelectrically excited, resonant, elastic beams find wide use as piezoelectric fans, optical choppers, MEMS sensors, and piezoelectric motors. The devices consist of either one piezoelectric ...

Abstract: Piezoelectric fans have been shown to provide substantial enhancements in heat transfer over natural convection while consuming very little power. These devices consist of a piezoelectric material ...

Abstract: A review of the state of the art in micropumping technologies for driving fluid through microchannels is presented with a particular emphasis on small-scale cooling applications. An extensive ...

Abstract: Aeroelastic flutter can lead to large amplitude oscillations of tensioned wide webs and narrow ribbons commonly used in the paper-handling, textile, sheet-metal, and plastics industries. In this ...

Abstract: Hamaker constants are characteristic material properties that determine the magnitude of the nonlinear van der Waals force between atoms, molecules and nanoscale aggregates of atoms. This paper ...