Steady accretion of an elastic body on a hard spherical surface and the notion of a four-dimensional reference space

Taking the cue from experiments on actin growth on spherical beads, we formulate and solve a model problem describing the accretion of an incompressible elastic solid on a rigid sphere due to attachment of diffusing free particles. One of the peculiar characteristics of this problem is that accretio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tomassetti, Giuseppe, Cohen, Tal, Abeyaratne, Rohan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119463
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-1538