Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Analysis of Fluid Systems: Stability, Receptivity, SensitivityLecture notes from the FLOW NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This article presents techniques for the analysis of fluid systems. It adopts an optimizationbased point of view, formulating common concepts such as stability and receptivity in terms of a cost functional to be optimized ... -
Thermal Pain in Teeth: Electrophysiology Governed by Thermomechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Thermal pain arising from the teeth is unlike that arising from anywhere else in the body. The source of this peculiarity is a longstanding mystery that has begun to unravel with recent experimental measurements and, ... -
Laminar Turbulent Transition in Magnetohydrodynamic Duct, Pipe, and Channel Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A magnetic field imposed on a flow of an electrically conducting fluid can profoundly change flow behavior. We consider this effect for the situation of laminarturbulent transition in magnetohydrodynamic duct, pipe, and ... -
Modal Stability TheoryLecture notes from the FLOW NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This article contains a review of modal stability theory. It covers local stability analysis of parallel flows including temporal stability, spatial stability, phase velocity, group velocity, spatiotemporal stability, the ... -
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Their Stability, and ChaosLecture notes from the FLOW NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This introduction to nonlinear systems is written for students of fluid mechanics, so connections are made throughout the text to familiar fluid flow systems. The aim is to present how nonlinear systems are qualitatively ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for stateoftheart and retrospective survey articles and reviews of research areas and curricular developments across all ... -
An Introduction to Optimal ControlLecture notes from the FLOW NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The goal of these lecture notes is to provide an informal introduction to the use of variational techniques for solving constrained optimization problems with equality constraints and full state information. The use of the ... -
Advances in Developing Electromechanically Coupled Computational Methods for Piezoelectrics/Ferroelectrics at Multiscale
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics have been widely used in modern industries because of their peculiar electromechanical coupling properties, quick response, and compact size. In this work, we give a comprehensive review ... -
Review on Cell Mechanics: Experimental and Modeling Approaches
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The interplay between the mechanical properties of cells and the forces that they produce internally or that are externally applied to them play an important role in maintaining the normal function of cells. These forces ... -
The Rodrigues Equations for the Composition of Finite Rotations: A Simple Ab Initio Derivation and Some Consequences
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The wellknown Rodrigues' equations for the composition of two finite rotations were introduced in 1840 without a detailed derivation. Although later derivations are available, the one presented here is very simple, is based ... -
Recent Advances in Sailing Yacht Aerodynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The analysis of sailing yacht aerodynamics has changed dramatically over the last 15 years and has enabled significant advances in performance prediction. For instance, the growth of computational fluid dynamics has ... -
The Motion Constants of Linear Autonomous Dynamical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The timeindependent integrals, here referred to as motion constants, for general nthorder linear autonomous systems are developed. Although it is commonly believed that this topic has been fully addressed, close inspection ... -
Soil Models and Vehicle System Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The mechanical behavior of soils may be approximated using different models that depend on particular soil characteristics and simplifying assumptions. For this reason, researchers have proposed and expounded upon a large ... -
Acoustics of Corrugated Pipes: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Corrugated pipes and tubes are commonly used in many engineering and industrial applications because they offer global flexibility combined with local rigidity. Some of the engineering systems which use the corrugated pipes ... -
Computer Vision Based, Noncontacting Deformation Measurements in Mechanics: A Generational Transformation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The remarkable increases in computational speed and memory size that have occurred over the past three decades have impacted virtually every area of scientific inquiry. With regard to the measurement community, the digital ... -
Size Effect Law and Critical Distance Theories to Predict the Nominal Strength of Quasibrittle Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The design of structures with a nonuniform stress field is of great industrial interest. The ability of the size effect law and critical distance theories to predict the nominal strength of notched and open hole specimens ... -
Dynamic Models of Piled Foundations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The vibration behavior of piled foundations is an important consideration in fields such as earthquake engineering, construction, machinefoundation design, offshore structures, nuclear energy, and road and rail development. ... -
Heat Transfer Scaling Close to the Wall for Turbulent Channel Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This work serves a twofold purpose of briefly reviewing the currently existing literature on the scaling of thermal turbulent fields and, in addition, proposing a new scaling framework and testing its applicability. An ... -
Thermal Dispersion in Porous Media—A Review on the Experimental Studies for Packed Beds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Thermal dispersion is an important topic in the convective heat transfer in porous media. In order to determine the heat transfer in a packed bed, the effective thermal conductivity including both stagnant and dispersion ... -
Frequency Response of Laminated Glass Elements: Analytical Modeling and Effective Thickness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Laminated glass elements are sandwich structures where the glass presents linearelastic behavior, whereas the polymer interlayer is, in general, a linearviscoelastic material. Several analytical models have been proposed ...