Abstract: The direct conversion of sunlight to electricity using thin film solar cells is potentially a low cost renewable source of energy. A major factor contributing to the low projected costs is ...

Abstract: Poisson’s ratio for an anisotropic linear elastic material depends on two orthogonal directions n and m. Materials with negative Poisson’s ratios for all (n,m) pairs are called completely auxetic ...

Abstract: An infinite elastic solid containing a doubly periodic rectangular array of slitlike cracks is considered. The solid is subjected to a uniform stress resulting in a state of plane strain. The ...

Abstract: An inviscid-viscous interaction technique for the analysis of quasi-three-dimensional turbomachinery cascades has been developed. The inviscid flow is calculated using a time-marching, multiple-grid ...

Abstract: This work outlines a procedure for simulating the flow field within multistage turbomachinery, which includes the effects of unsteadiness, compressibility, and viscosity. The associated modeling ...