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Robin J. Knops

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  • EH14 4AS

    United Kingdom

1973 …2026

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Qualitative behaviour of solutions to initial boundary value problems for various linear and nonlinear theories in continuum mechanics,including elasticity and Navier-Stokes. There is especial current interest in uniqueness, dynamic and spatial stability, continuous data dependence (Saint-Venant's principle), and singularities (dislocations).

Biography

Former Head of Mathematics Department and Vice-Principle , Heriot-Watt University. Former Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow Visiting Professorships at Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley. Univeristies of Pisa, Rome III, and EPFL, Lausanne. Past President of Edinburgh Mathematical Society; International Society for the Interaction of Mathematics and Mechanics. Past Series Editor for C&H/CRC Press.

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  • On action rate admissibility criteria

    Gimperlein, H., Grinfeld, M., Knops, R. J. & Slemrod, M., Feb 2026, In: Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik ZAMP. 77, 2, 57.

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  • Interpreting convex integration results in hydrodynamics

    Eyink, G., Gimperlein, H., Goldenfeld, N., Grinfeld, M., Karlin, I., Knops, R. J., Kogelbauer, F., Kreml, O., McLarty, C., Markfelder, S., Osipov, M. & Slemrod, M., 8 Jul 2025, In: European Mathematical Society Magazine. 136, p. 29-38 10 p.

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  • On singular behaviour in a plane linear elastostatics problem

    Gimperlein, H., Grinfeld, M., Knops, R. J. & Slemrod, M., Sept 2025, In: Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. 30, 9, p. 1979-2000 22 p.

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  • The Least Action Admissibility Principle

    Gimperlein, H., Grinfeld, M., Knops, R. J. & Slemrod, M., Apr 2025, In: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 249, 2, 22.

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  • Universal Deformations in Plane Isotropic Elastostatics

    Knops, R. J., Nov 2025, In: Journal of Elasticity. 157, 4, 79.

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