Mechanics of the 21st Century Proceedings of the 21st International
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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
