{"id":222,"date":"2023-07-24T02:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramyrashad.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:36:09","slug":"geometric-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramyrashad.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/24\/geometric-modeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonlinear Elasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Identifying the underlying structure of partial differential equations is a fundamental topic in modern treatments of continuum mechanics and field theories in general. Not only does every discovery of a new structure provide a better mathematical understanding of the theory, but such hidden structures are fundamental for analysis, discretization, model order reduction and controller design. Throughout the years, many efforts were made to search for the geometric, topological and energetic structures underlying the governing equations of continuum mechanics and we aim in this paper to contribute to this search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this paper, we focus on the formulation of nonlinear elasticity using exterior calculus in a geometrically intrinsic manner. Throughout the paper, we aim to highlight the underlying geometric and topological structures of nonlinear elasticity while treating the spatial, material and convective representations of the theory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our formulation of nonlinear elasticity is distinguished by its minimalistic nature which simplifies the theory to its essential intrinsic coordinate-free parts. By identifying kinematic quantities (e.g. velocities and rate-of-strain variables) with appropriate\u00a0intensive vector-valued forms<\/em>, the momentum and stress variables will be naturally represented as\u00a0extensive covector-valued pseudo-forms<\/em>, by topological duality. Furthermore, using Riesz representation theorem, we will construct appropriate Hodge star operators that will relate the different variables to each other. Not only does our intrinsic formulation reflect the geometric nature of the physical variables, but also the resulting expressions of the dynamics are compact, in line with physical intuition, and one has a clear recipe for changing between the different representations. Finally, in order to target a wider audience than researchers proficient in geometric mechanics, we present the paper in a pedagogical style using several visualizations of the theory and include coordinate-based expressions of the abstract geometric objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration of the embedding of the elastic body in the ambient space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Elastic body’s motion as a curve in the configuration space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We also consider in our work emphasizing two types of structures underlying the theory of nonlinear elasticity, namely 1) the principal bundle structure relating the configuration space\u00a0to the deformation space\u00a0and 2) the de Rham complex structure relating the spaces of bundle-valued forms to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Illustration of the motion of the elastic body on infinite dimensional manifolds<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Commutative diagram of the spatial, material and convective de Rham complexes shown from top to bottom, respectively.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Double de Rham complexes in three-dimensional space<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Publication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramy Rashad, Andrea Brugnoli, Federico Califano, Erwin Luesink, Stefano Stramigioli\u00a0(2023)\u00a0Intrinsic Nonlinear Elasticity: An Exterior Calculus Formulation,\u00a0Journal of Nonlinear Science\u00a033(5),\u00a0p. 84,\u00a0doi:10.1007\/s00332-023-09945-7<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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