Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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On Boundary Conditions for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)We revisit the issue of finding proper boundary conditions for the field equations describing incompressible flow problems, for quantities like pressure or vorticity, which often do not have ... -
Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control in Hamiltonian Formulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The significant advances in nonlinear stochastic dynamics and control in Hamiltonian formulation during the past decade are reviewed. The exact stationary solutions and equivalent nonlinear system ... -
Coherent Structures of Turbulence: Methods of Eduction and Results
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In this paper the issue of the coherent structures of turbulence developing in wall-bounded flows is addressed. After a short historical synthesis, some basic concepts are reviewed and the idea ... -
Constructal Theory: From Engineering to Physics, and How Flow Systems Develop Shape and Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Constructal theory and its applications to various fields ranging from engineering to natural living and inanimate systems, and to social organization and economics, are reviewed in this paper. ... -
Actuators for Micropositioners and Nanopositioners
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A summary of recent research in micropositioning and nanopositioning is presented. The work is classified into five groups by actuation approach, including piezoelectric, magnetic, electrostatic, ... -
Scaling Laws and Multiscale Approach in the Mechanics of Heterogeneous and Disordered Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The present paper is a review of research carried out on scaling laws and multiscaling approach in the mechanics of heterogeneous and disordered materials in the last two decades, especially ... -
Modeling the Transport of Low-Molecular-Weight Penetrants Within Polymer Matrix Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In 1855 Fick reported on the diffusion of liquid through a membrane and proposed that there was an analogy between this process and that of heat conduction allowing him to transcribe the ... -
A Review of a Few Topics in Piezoelectricity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This is a review article on a few special topics in piezoelectricity: gradient and nonlocal theories, fully dynamic theory with Maxwell equations, piezoelectric semiconductors, and motions of ... -
Introduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Natural flyers and swimmers such as birds, insects, and fish have fascinated us for centuries. There exists a substantial body of literature on animal locomotion. So far, the majority of the ... -
A Review of Water Hammer Theory and Practice
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Hydraulic transients in closed conduits have been a subject of both theoretical study and intense practical interest for more than one hundred years. While straightforward in terms of the ... -
Review of Wall Turbulence as Described by Composite Expansions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This article reviews the literature on the theory of wall turbulence and the correlation of data from the viewpoint of composite expansions. As an interpretive tool, composite expansions have ... -
Problems of Thermophysics and Thermal Engineering for the New Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This review article gives an overview of some topics related to classical and modern problems in the theory of heat, its meaning for various branches, and thermal management of equipment. The ... -
Computational Modeling of Ventricular Mechanics and Energetics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The system of equations, material constitutive laws, and boundary conditions required to construct an anatomically and biophysically based model of ventricular mechanics is reviewed. The models ... -
Controversy Associated With the So-Called “Follower Forces”: Critical Overview
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper is inspired by two articles on the title subject, namely by Koiter and by Sugiyama, Langthjem and Ryu. The former warned the engineering community to beware of the above forces. ... -
Analysis and Control of Transverse Vibrations of Axially Moving Strings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper, research on transverse vibrations of axially moving strings and their control is thoroughly reviewed. In the last few decades, there have been extensive studies on analysis and ... -
Membrane Wing-Based Micro Air Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Micro air vehicles (MAVs) with a wingspan of 15cm or shorter, and flight speed around 10m∕s have attracted substantial interest in recent years. There are several prominent features of MAV ... -
Erratum: “Nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables—Part I: Modeling and analysis” [Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2004, 57(6), pp. 443–478]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Some errors occurred in the review article entitled “Nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables—Part I: Modeling and analysis,” by Giuseppe Rega, published in Applied Mechanics Reviews, 57 (6), ... -
Linearization in Analysis of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems: Recent Results—Part I: Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The purpose of Part 1 of this paper is to provide a review of recent results from 1991 through 2003 in the area of theoretical aspects of statistical and equivalent linearization in the ... -
Fracture Mechanics of Thin Plates and Shells Under Combined Membrane, Bending, and Twisting Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The fracture mechanics of plates and shells under membrane, bending, twisting, and shearing loads are reviewed, starting with the crack tip fields for plane stress, Kirchhoff, and Reissner ... -
Supersonic Flow Separation with Application to Rocket Engine Nozzles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The past decade has seen a qualitative advancement of our understanding of physical phenomena involved in flow separation in supersonic nozzles; in particular, the problem of side loads due to ...