Mechanics : Essays in Honor of Juan-Carlos Simo

This collection of papers in honour of Juan-Carlos Simo cover subjects including: dynamical problems for geometrically exact theories of nonlinearly viscoelastic rods; gravity waves on the surface of the sphere; and problems and progress in microswimming.

Dynamical Problems for Geometrically Exact Theories of Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Rods.- The Limits of Hamiltonian Structures in Three-Dimensional Elasticity, Shells, and Rods.- The Membrane Shell Model in Nonlinear Elasticity: A Variational Asymptotic Derivation.- Gravity Waves on the Surface of the Sphere.- A Nonlinear Extensible 4-Node Shell Element Based on Continuum Theory and Assumed Strain Interpolations.- Multilayer Beams: A Geometrically Exact Formulation.- Obstructions to Quantization.- An Impetus-Striction Simulation of the Dynamics of an Elastica.- A Symplectic Integrator for Riemannian Manifolds.- Time Integration and Discrete Hamiltonian Systems.- Problems and Progress in Microswimming.- Symmetry Methods in Collisionless Many-Body Problems.- Mathematical Analysis of Sideband Instabilities with Application to Rayleigh-Bénard Convection.- KAM Theory Near Multiplicity One Resonant Surfaces in Perturbations of A-Priori Stable Hamiltonian Systems.- Constrained Euler Buckling.- Continuity Properties and Global Attractors of Generalized Semiflows and the Navier-Stokes Equations.- Stacked Lagrange Tops.- On the Bifurcation and Stability of Rigidly Rotating Inviscid Liquid Bridges.