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most citedElephant trunk wrinkles: A mathematical model of function and form

7 citations · 12 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

math.HO2025

The illusion of illusions: There are no optical corrections in the Parthenon

Alain Goriely

One of the oldest and most enduring myths in human history is the belief that the Parthenon was cleverly designed with various curved structures and sizes in order to correct optic…

physics.class-ph2024★ 5 cited

Nonlinear Cauchy Elasticity

Arash Yavari, Alain Goriely

Most theories and applications of elasticity rely on an energy function that depends on the strains from which the stresses can be derived. This is the traditional setting of Green…

cs.CG2024

Soft cells, Kelvin's foam and the minimal surfaces of Schwarz

Gábor Domokos, Alain Goriely, Ákos G. Horváth +1

Recently, we introduced a new class of shapes, called soft cells which fill space as soft tilings without gaps and overlaps while minimizing the number of sharp corners. We introdu…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 7 cited

Elephant trunk wrinkles: A mathematical model of function and form

Yang Liu, Alain Goriely, L. Angela Mihai

A notable feature of the elephant trunk is the pronounced wrinkling that enables its great flexibility. Here, we devise a general mathematical model that accounts for the character…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Controllable Deformations in Compressible Isotropic Implicit Elasticity

Arash Yavari, Alain Goriely

For a given material, \emph{controllable deformations} are those deformations that can be maintained in the absence of body forces and by applying only boundary tractions. For a gi…

physics.class-ph2019

Likely cavitation and radial motion of stochastic elastic spheres 2: Impulse driven

L. Angela Mihai, Thomas E. Woolley, Alain Goriely

Cavitation in solids can be caused by tensile dead-load traction or impulse traction. The two different types of boundary conditions lead to different static and dynamic solutions.…