Using the tool of two-scale convergence, we provide a rigorous mathematical setting for the homogenization result obtained by Fleck and Willis (J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2004) concerning the effective plastic behaviour of a strain gradient composite material. Moreover, moving from deformation theory to flow theory, we prove a convergence result for the homogenization of quasistatic evolutions in t...

1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 3. Group of Mechanobiology of Organs and Biological Tissues (Mech+Biol_UN), Biomimetics Laboratory, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. 4. Instit...

J. Fluid Mech. (2013), vol. 725, pp. 332–371. c © Cambridge University Press 2013. The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence . The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercia...

Citation: Ciatti SA (2015) Compression ignition engines – revolutionary technology that has civilized frontiers all over the globe from the industrial revolution into the twenty-first century. Front. Mech. Eng. 1:5. doi: 10.3389/fmech.2015.00005 Compression ignition engines – revolutionary technology that has civilized frontiers all over the globe from the industrial revolution into the twenty-...

The spectral model of Perry et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 165, 1986, pp. 163–199) predicts that the integral length scale varies very slowly with distance to the wall in the intermediate layer. The only way for the integral length scale’s variation to be more realistic while keeping with the Townsend–Perry attached eddy spectrum is to add a new wavenumber range to the model at wavenumbers smalle...

We consider an inviscid fluid, initially at rest inside a wedge, bounded by one free surface and one solid surface. When t = 0, we allow the contact angle to change discontinuously, which leads the free surface to recoil under the action of surface tension. As noted by Keller and Miksis [SIAM J. Appl. Math., 43 (1983), pp. 268–277], a similarity scaling is available, with lengths scaling like t...

Citation: Chang Y, Jia M, Li Y and Xie M (2015) Application of the optimized decoupling methodology for the construction of a skeletal primary reference fuel mechanism focusing on engine-relevant conditions. Front. Mech. Eng. 1:11. doi: 10.3389/fmech.2015.00011 Application of the optimized decoupling methodology for the construction of a skeletal primary reference fuel mechanism focusing on eng...

An almost-Markovian model equation is proposed for Fourier modes of velocity field of isotropic turbulence whose statistical properties are identical to those governed by equations of Local Energy Transfer theory of turbulence [McComb et. al., J. Fluid Mech. 245, 279 (1992)] compatible with the Kolmogorov spectrum.

J. Fluid Mech., (2013), vol. 725, pp. 55–90. c © Cambridge University Press 2013. The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence . The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial ...

J. of the Braz. Soc. of Mech. Sci. & Eng. Copyright © 2006 by ABCM July-September 2006, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 / 311 Firdaus E. Udwadia Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering,, Mathematics Systems Architecture Engineering and Information and Operations Management University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089-1453 [email protected] Recent Advances in Multi-body Dynamics and ...