Visco-Elasticity of Some Matters

Why elasticity matters

Elasticity should be treated as a first class system parameter. Particularly in large cloud environments, elastic applications would benefit if the underlying infrastructure provided primitives for elasticity and were themselves elastic. If you want to provide an elastic service and the cloud does not provide good primitives for the degree of elasticity you require, then you are forced to over-...

Thermo-visco-elasticity at Small Strains with L-data

Existence of a very weak solution to the d-dimensional thermo-viscoelasticity system for Kelvin-Voigt-type material at small strains involving (possibly nonlinear) monotone viscosity of a p-Laplacian type and temperature-dependent heat capacity of an (ω−1)-polynomial growth is proved by a successive passage to a limit in a suitably regularized Galerkin approximation and sophisticated a priori e...

Chirality of coiled coils: elasticity matters.

Coiled coils are important protein-protein interaction motifs with high specificity that are used to assemble macromolecular complexes. Their simple geometric organization, consisting of alpha helices wrapped around each other, confers remarkable mechanical properties. A geometrical and mechanical continuous model taking into account sequence effects and based on the superhelical winding of the...

Dilational surface visco-elasticity of polyelectrolyte/surfactant solutions: formation of heterogeneous adsorption layers.

Recent application of the methods of surface dilational rheology to solutions of the complexes between synthetic polyelectrolytes and oppositely charged surfactants (PSC) gave a possibility to determine some steps of the adsorption layer formation and to discover an abrupt transition connected with the formation of microaggregates at the liquid surface. The kinetic dependencies of the dynamic s...

Theoretical study of the generation of soap films: role of interfacial visco-elasticity