Mechanics of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 15-21 August 2004

Interplay between Air and Water.- Stochastic Dynamics of Engineering Systems.- Multibody Dynamics: Bridging for Multidisciplinary Applications.- Rapid Formation of Strong Gradients and Diffusion in the Transport of Scalar and Vector Fields.- Wave-Vortex Interactions in the Atmosphere, and Climate Prediction.- Near-Critical Point Hydrodynamics and Microgravity.- Flaw Tolerant Nanostructures of Biological Materials.- Transport and Mixing in the Atmosphere.- Variational and Multiscale Methods in Turbulence.- Mechanics of Thin Film Structures.- Nonlinear Dynamics in Ocean Engineering.- A Bridge Between the Micro- and Mesomechanics of Laminates: Fantasy or Reality?.- Turbulence and Large-Eddy Simulations.- Nano Mechanical Analysis of IFM Force Profiles on Self-Assembled Monolayers.- Collisional Granular Flows with and Without Gas Interactions in Microgravity.- Probability Phenomena in Perturbed Dynamical Systems.- Mechanics of Rubberlike Solids.- Elastic Wave Propagation Development for Structural Health Monitoring.- On the Damping of a Piezoelectric Truss.- Strength of Nanostructures.- Micromechanics of Cells.- Elastic Interactions of Biological Cells.- Electrokinetic flow Instabilities in Microfluidic Systems.- Molecular Mechanics of Cytoskeletal Components.- Topics in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.- Miniaturization of Explosive Technology and Microdetonics.- Foams in Microgravity.

Presents a snapshot view of the state-of-the-art in the field of contemporary mechanics