Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids: A collection of papers in honor of Paul M. Naghdi

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Foreword....Pages 1-2
Paul M. Naghdi (1924–1994)....Pages 3-32
List of Publications of Paul M. Naghdi....Pages 33-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Interfacial and surface waves in pre-strained isotropic elastic media....Pages 51-71
Deformations of an elastic, internally constrained material Part 3: Small superimposed deformations and waves....Pages 72-106
On axisymmetric solutions for compressible nonlinearly elastic solids....Pages 107-125
On obtaining closed form solutions for compressible nonlinearly elastic materials....Pages 126-145
Stress and the moment-twist relation in the torsion of a cylinder with a nonconvex stored energy function....Pages 146-171
Conditions on the elastic strain-energy function....Pages 172-184
On the stability of a biaxially stressed elastic material with a free surface under variations in surface shape....Pages 185-200
Expressions for the gradients of the principal stresses and their application to interior stress concentration....Pages 201-209
On the number of distinct elastic constants associated with certain anisotropic elastic symmetries....Pages 210-224
Stress and deformation in moderately anisotropic inhomogeneous elastic plates....Pages 225-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Remarks concerning forces on line defects....Pages 247-271
On entropy and incomplete information in irreversible heat flow....Pages 272-293
A system of hyperbolic conservation laws with frictional damping....Pages 294-307
Numerical solution of two- and three-dimensional thermomechanical problems using the theory of a Cosserat point....Pages 308-334
The relaxation of a decompressed inclusion....Pages 335-355
The common conjugate directions of plane sections of two concentric ellipsoids....Pages 356-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Stable response in the plastic range with local instability....Pages 375-385
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
A work-hardening elastic-plastic wedge....Pages 386-400
Finite elastic-plastic deformations of an ideal fibre-reinforced beam bent around a cylinder....Pages 401-426
The elasto-plastic plate with a hole: Analytical solutions derived by singular perturbations....Pages 427-445
Exact stress states and velocity fields in bicrystals at the yield point in channel die compression....Pages 446-465
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Stress, Strain, growth, and remodeling of living organisms....Pages 469-482
Experimental determination of tribological properties of ultra-thin solid films....Pages 483-505
The hierarchy of microstructures for low density materials....Pages 506-521
Swelling and shrinking of polyelectrolytic gels....Pages 522-532
Front Matter....Pages 533-533
On gravity waves in channels....Pages 535-565
Bragg scattering of water waves by Green-Naghdi theory....Pages 566-583
Water waves over a sloping beach in a rotating frame....Pages 584-611
An approximate theory for velocity profiles in the near wake of a flat plate....Pages 612-626
On the motion of a non-rigid sphere in a perfect fluid....Pages 627-642
An adaptive hp -finite element method for incompressible free surface flows of Generalized Newtonian fluids....Pages 643-678
Viscoelastic effects in film casting....Pages 679-698
Experimental evidence for intense vortical structures in grid turbulence....Pages 699-716
Evaluation of Reynolds stress turbulence closures in compressible homogeneous shear flow....Pages 717-736
A structural theory of anisotropic turbulence....Pages 737-757
Front Matter....Pages 759-759
The effect of damping on the stability of gyroscopic pendulums....Pages 761-780
Dynamical systems considered as ordering machines....Pages 781-804
Front Matter....Pages 759-759
On the advantages of a geometrical viewpoint in the derivation of Lagrange’s equations for a rigid continuum....Pages 805-847
Back Matter....Pages 849-852