Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Proceedings of the International Congress (18th) Held in Haifa, Israel on August 22 - 28, 1992.

摘要

Some topics discussed at this symposium include: (1) Instability and turbulence in shear flows; (2) Micromechanics of fracture; (3) Material instabilities and phase transitions in thermoelasticity; (4) Propagating instabilities in structures; (5) Computational approaches to plastic instability in solid mechanics; (6) The role of wave breaking in air-sea interaction; (7) Effect of wind and water shear on wave instabilities; (8) Liquid layer dynamics in pulmonary airways; (9) Energy-saving mechanisms in animal movement; (10) Controlling chaotic convection; (11) Application of structural mechanics to biological system; (12) Aerodynamic sound associated with vortex motions: observation and computation; (13) On the role of wave propagation and wave breaking in atmosphere-ocean dynamics; (14) Computational aspects of integration along the path of loading in elastic-plastic problems; (15) Constitutive modeling and analysis of creep, damage, and creep crack growth under neutron irradiation; (16) Bubble mechanics: luminescence, noise, and two-phase flow; (17) Self-similar multiplier distributions and multiplicative models for energy dissipation in high-Reynolds-number turbulence; and (18) Cardiovascular fluid mechanics.