In order to carry out tensor analysis in a neighborhood of a reference surface,the principal-direction orthogonal basis accompanying with Lame s coefficients or general curvilinear coordinate systems are widely used.A...In order to carry out tensor analysis in a neighborhood of a reference surface,the principal-direction orthogonal basis accompanying with Lame s coefficients or general curvilinear coordinate systems are widely used.A novel kind of field theory termed as the nonholonomic theory of the Principal-Direction Orthonormal Basis(PDOB)is presented systematically in the present paper,in which the formal Christoffel symbols are related directly to the principal and geodesic curvatures with respect to the principal directions of the surface.Furthermore,a systematic and simple way to determine the curvatures of the surface are presented with some examples.It provides a way to recognize qualitatively the bending property of a surface.展开更多
The continuous mediums are divided into two kinds according to their geometrical configurations,the first one is related to Euclidian manifolds and the other one to Riemannian manifolds/surfaces in the point of view o...The continuous mediums are divided into two kinds according to their geometrical configurations,the first one is related to Euclidian manifolds and the other one to Riemannian manifolds/surfaces in the point of view of the modern geometry.Two kinds of finite deformation theories with respect to Euclidian and Riemannian manifolds have been developed in the present paper.Both kinds of theories include the definitions of initial and current physical and parametric configurations,deformation gradient tensors with properties,deformation descriptions,transport theories and governing equations of nature conservation laws.The essential property of the theory with respect to Euclidian manifolds is that the curvilinear coordinates corresponding to the current physical configurations include time explicitly through which the geometrically irregular and time varying physical configurations can be mapped in the diffeomorphism manner to the regular and fixed domains in the parametric space.It is quite essential to the study of the relationships between geometries and mechanics.The theory with respect to Riemannian manifolds provides the systemic ideas and methods to study the deformations of continuous mediums whose geometrical configurations can be considered as general surfaces.The essential property of the theory with respect to Riemannian manifolds is that the thickness variation of a patch of continuous medium is represented by the surface density and its governing equation is rigorously deduced.As some applications,wakes of cylinders with deformable boundaries on the plane,incompressible wakes of a circular cylinder on fixed surfaces and axisymmetric finite deformations of an elastic membrane are numerically studied.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11972120,11472082,12032016)。
文摘In order to carry out tensor analysis in a neighborhood of a reference surface,the principal-direction orthogonal basis accompanying with Lame s coefficients or general curvilinear coordinate systems are widely used.A novel kind of field theory termed as the nonholonomic theory of the Principal-Direction Orthonormal Basis(PDOB)is presented systematically in the present paper,in which the formal Christoffel symbols are related directly to the principal and geodesic curvatures with respect to the principal directions of the surface.Furthermore,a systematic and simple way to determine the curvatures of the surface are presented with some examples.It provides a way to recognize qualitatively the bending property of a surface.
基金supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11172069 and 10872051)some key project of education reforms issued by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2011)
文摘The continuous mediums are divided into two kinds according to their geometrical configurations,the first one is related to Euclidian manifolds and the other one to Riemannian manifolds/surfaces in the point of view of the modern geometry.Two kinds of finite deformation theories with respect to Euclidian and Riemannian manifolds have been developed in the present paper.Both kinds of theories include the definitions of initial and current physical and parametric configurations,deformation gradient tensors with properties,deformation descriptions,transport theories and governing equations of nature conservation laws.The essential property of the theory with respect to Euclidian manifolds is that the curvilinear coordinates corresponding to the current physical configurations include time explicitly through which the geometrically irregular and time varying physical configurations can be mapped in the diffeomorphism manner to the regular and fixed domains in the parametric space.It is quite essential to the study of the relationships between geometries and mechanics.The theory with respect to Riemannian manifolds provides the systemic ideas and methods to study the deformations of continuous mediums whose geometrical configurations can be considered as general surfaces.The essential property of the theory with respect to Riemannian manifolds is that the thickness variation of a patch of continuous medium is represented by the surface density and its governing equation is rigorously deduced.As some applications,wakes of cylinders with deformable boundaries on the plane,incompressible wakes of a circular cylinder on fixed surfaces and axisymmetric finite deformations of an elastic membrane are numerically studied.
