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Mechanics of the 21st Century Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 15--21 August 2004

Edited by

WITOLD GUTKOWSKI Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and

TOMASZ A. KOWALEWSKI Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-4020-3456-3 (HB) 978-1-4020-3456-5 (HB) 1-4020-3559-4 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3559-3 (e-book)

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Contents

Committees

viii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Exhibitors

xii

Congress Statistics

xiii

Opening Ceremony

xv

Closing Ceremony

xxiii

Scientific Program

xxx

Interplay between Air and Water Leen van Wijngaarden

1

Stochastic Dynamics of Engineering Systems Kazimierz Sobczyk

19

Multibody Dynamics: Bridging for Multidisciplinary Applications Jorge A.C. Ambr´sio ´

61

Rapid p Formation of Strongg Gradients and Diffusion in the Transport of Scalar and Vector Fields Konrad Bajer

89

Wave-Vortex Interactions in the Atmosphere, and Climate Prediction Onno Bokhove

103

Near-critical Point Hydrodynamics and Microgravity Daniel A. Beysens

117

Flaw Tolerant Nanostructures of Biological Materials Huajian Gao, Baohua Ji, Markus J. Buehler, and Haimin Yao

131

vi

ICTAM04

Transport and Mixing in the Atmosphere Peter H. Haynes

139

Variational and Multiscale Methods in Turbulence Thomas J. R. Hughes, Victor M. Calo, and Guglielmo Scovazzi

153

Mechanics of Thin Film Structures Henrik Myhre Jensen

165

Nonlinear Dynamics in Ocean Engineering Edwin J. Kreuzer, Wolfgang M. Sichermann

173

A Bridge g between the Micro- and Mesomechanics of Laminates: Fantasy or Reality? Pierre Ladev`eze Turbulence and Large-Eddy Simulations Marcel R. Lesieur Nano Mechanical Analysis of IFM Force Profiles on Self-Assembled Monolayers Mingji Wang, Kenneth M. Liechti, Vibha Srinivasan, John M. White, Peter J. Rossky Collisional Granular Flows with and without Gas Interactions in Microgravity Michel Y. Louge and Haitao Xu

187 203

217

229

Probability Phenomena in Perturbed Dynamical Systems Anatoly Neishtadt

241

Mechanics of Rubberlike Solids Ray W. Ogden

263

Elastic Wave Propagation p g Development for Structural Health Monitoring Wieslaw Ostachowicz

275

On the damping of a piezoelectric truss Andre Preumont

287

Strength of Nanostructures Rodney S. Ruoff, ff Nicola