1 Postdoctoral associate, Solid Mechanics Laboratory (UMR CNRS 7649), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 2 EADS Innovation Works, Toulouse, France, {laurent.chambon,damien.crozes}@eads.net 3 Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, [email protected] 4 Solid Mechanics Laboratory (UMR CNRS 7649), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, [email protected]...

the theory of contact mechanics deals with stresses and deformations which arise when the surfaces of two solid bodies are brought into contact. in elastic deformation contact occurs over a finite area. a regular method for determining the dimensions of this area is hertz contact model. appearance of atomic force microscope results in introduction of contact mechanics into biology. low elastici...

[1] A detailed understanding of the coupling between fluid and solid mechanics is important for understanding many processes in Earth sciences. Numerical models are a popular means for exploring these processes, but most models do not adequately handle all aspects of this coupling. This paper presents the application of a micromechanically based fluid-solid coupling scheme, lattice-Boltzmann di...

The genus Volvox is comprised of several species of communal multcellular chlorophytes which exhibit a series of interesting morphogenetic events during their developmental cycle. In Volvox carteri, the inversion event is interesting in that after several rounds of cell division from a single cell, the glycoprotein lled, spheroidal plakea completely inverts itself thorough of series of highly c...

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This article develops a general framework for applying algebraic multigrid techniques to constrained systems of linear algebraic equations that arise in applications with discretized PDEs. We discuss constraint coarsening strategies for constructing multigrid coarse grid spaces and several classes of multigrid smoothers for these systems. The potential of these techniques is investigated with t...