The large deformation of nonlinearly elastic shells in axisymmetric flows (Q1196162)

This paper treats the large deformation of closed nonlinearly elastic axisymmetric shells under an external pressure field generated by the steady, irrotational, axisymmetric flow of an incompressible inviscid fluid. The existence of solutions to this coupled problem is shown with the assumptions: 1) the constitutive behaviour of the material fulfills some monotonicity conditions; 2) the velocity at infinity is small enough. The coupled problem for the deformation of the shell and the external flow is replaced with the single problem for the deformation of the shell in which the pressure field on it depends nonlocally on its shape. Finally, a generalization of the global implicit function theorem is applied.