The diffusion of a fluid through a highly elastic spherical membrane (Q793617)

In the problem of the diffusion of an ideal fluid through a spherical shell of nonlinearly elastic material the stretch ratios were not constant in the radial direction. This new feature is a consequence of the presence of diffusive body forces which depend on the gradients of the densities and stretch tensors. Hence, in this work, we develop a membrane theory which depends on the values at the deformed middle surface of physical quantities and their gradients in the thickness direction. In order to avoid the question of flow within the membrane middle surface due to gradients in this surface, we confine attention to the axially symmetric problem of the diffusion of an ideal fluid through a spherical membrane of a nonlinear elastic material.