A simplified three-dimensional (3-D) zero-thickness shell model was developed to recover the non-spherical response of thick-shelled encapsulated microbubbles subjected to ultrasound excitation. The model was validated by comparison with previously developed models and was then used to study the mechanism of bubble break-up during non-spherical deformations resulting from the presence of a near...

Water masers around an AGB star, IRC+60169, were observed at four epochs using the Japanese VLBI networks. The distribution of the maser features is limited in a thick-shell region, which has inner and outer expansion velocities of 7 km s and 14 km s at radii of 25 mas and 120 mas, respectively. The distribution of the red-shifted features exhibits a ring-like structure, the diameter of which i...

In this paper we present a 2D four-parameter model that accounts for the variation of transverse deformation through-the-thickness in thick linear elastic shells. This is deduced directly from 3D elasticity equations traction-displacement boundary value problem. Transverse shear strains and thickness are accountable through additional terms which appear final besides well-known classical Kirchh...

We present a multi-epoch quantitative spectroscopic analysis of the Type IIn SN 1994W, an event interpreted by Chugai et al. as stemming from the interaction between the ejecta of a SN and a 0.4 M⊙ circumstellar shell ejected 1.5 yr before core collapse. During the brightening phase, our models suggest that the source of optical radiation is not unique, perhaps associated with an inner opticall...

The Wave-based Finite Element Method or WFEM is applied to in-vacuo cylindrical shells to studystructure-borne wave interaction with bulkhead and keel-type plate attachments. The frequency rangeconsidered is from one to ten times the shell "ring" frequency. The goal is to better understand theshell-plate interaction, which plays an important role in the acoustic scattering and r...