supported by the NSFC(11072125 and 11272175);the NSF of Jiangsu Province(SBK201140044);the Specialized Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education(20130002110044)
This paper extends the covariant derivative un der curved coordinate systems in 3D Euclid space. Based on the axiom of the covariant form invariability, the classical covariant derivative that can only act on componen...
supported by the NSFC(11072125 and 11272175);the NSF of Jiangsu Province(SBK201140044);the Specialized Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education(20130002110044)
This paper extends the classical covariant deriva tive to the generalized covariant derivative on curved sur faces. The basement for the extension is similar to the pre vious paper, i.e., the axiom of the covariant fo...
supported by the NSFC(11072125 and 11272175);the NSF of Jiangsu Province(SBK201140044);the Specialized Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education(20130002110044)
This paper further extends the generalized covari ant derivative from the first covariant derivative to the sec ond one on curved surfaces. Through the linear transforma tion between the first generalized covariant de...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10872114,11072125,and 11272175);the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.SBK201140044);the Fundation of Tutor for Doctor Degree of Higher Education of China(No.20130002110044)
Based on the kinematic viewpoint, the concept of proportional movement is abstracted to explain the strange behaviors of fractal snowflakes. A transformation group for proportional movement is defined. Under the propo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10672121 and 11072125)
Through the Galerkin method the nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in time are obtained from the nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) to describe the mo- tion of the coupled structure of a...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant Nos.2010CB631005 and 2011CB606105);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11232008,91216301,11072125 and 11272175);Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
Wrinkling and buckling of nano-films on the compliant substrate are always induced due to thermal deformation mismatch.This paper proposes effective means to control the surface wrinkling of thin film on the compliant...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10872114,10672089, 10832005,and 11072125)
Recent experiments and molecule dynamics simulations have shown that adhesion droplets on conical surfaces may move spontaneously and directionally. Besides, this spontaneous and directional motion is independent of t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 10872114,11072125);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No. BK2008370)
Through the combination of the minimum energy principle in physics and the Steiner minimal tree (SMT) theory in geometry,this paper proves a universal law for lipid nanotube networks (LNNs):at stable equilibrium state...