SECTAM XII - Proceedings of the Twelfth Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Pine Mountain, GA, May 10, 11, 1984. Volume 2

Subjects in the area of fluid mechanics are discussed, taking into account heat-up flows of a contained fluid, an analytical solution for natural convection in a vertical oriented porous annulus, the Weissenberg effect generated by a torsionally oscillating rod in a layered medium, a system analysis for a model of bluff body base flow, steady solutions of the shallow water equations, and the subsonic near-wake of an axisymmetric body with a slanted base. Computational methods are considered along with structural vibrations, structural stability, experimental methods, coastal hydrodynamics, dynamical systems, large space structural systems, the hydraulics of sediment transport, localization of deformation, wave propagation, vibrations of plates and shells, composite materials, and design studies. Attention is given to damage tolerance studies in operational aircraft, design verification testing of advanced prototype structures, continuous filament wound grid stiffened composite structures for aircraft fuselages, and Navier-Stokes solutions for two-dimensional subsonic base flow.