Deep within the Kairei Indian hydrothermal vent field, two-and-one-half miles below the central Indian Ocean, scientists have discovered a gastropod mollusk, whose armor could improve load-bearing and ...
The great application potential for two-dimensional (2D) membranes (MoS 2, WSe 2, graphene and so on) aroused much effort to understand their fundamental mechanical properties. The out-of-plane ...
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 45, No. 6 (2007), pp. 2653-2670 (18 pages) We consider the Naghdi equations which model a thin three-dimensional shell. We propose a spectral discretization of ...