Abstract: The main element of compliant mechanisms and continuum robots is flexible slender beams. However, the modeling of beams can be complicated due to the geometric nonlinearity becoming significant at large elastic deflections. ...

Abstract: forced shallow-water model is used to understand the role of diabatic and frictional effects in the generation, maintenance, and breakdown of the hurricane eyewall potential vorticity (PV) ring. Diabatic heating is ...

Abstract: yphoon Morakot struck Taiwan during 6?9 August 2009, and it produced the highest rainfall (approaching 3000 mm) and caused the worst damage in the past 50 yr. Typhoon?monsoon flow interactions with mesoscale convection, ...