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Professor Norbert Stoop

Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Research Interests:
Pattern formation in out-of-equilibrium systems; Nonlinear mechanics (thin rods, membranes); Numerical analysis; Collective dynamics and its description using generic, higher-order partial differential equations

Selected Publications:
Norbert Stoop, Falk K. Wittel, Martine Ben Amar, Martin Michael Müller and Hans J. Herrmann, “Self-contact and instabilities in the anisotropic growth of elastic membranes”, Physics Review Letters, Vol. 105, 068101, August 2010
Vetter R, Stoop N, Jenni T, Wittel FK, Herrmann HJ (2013) Subdivision shell elements with anisotropic growth. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering 95:791–810 

Vetter R, Stoop N, Jenni T, Wittel FK, Herrmann HJ (2014) Simulating thin sheets: Buckling, wrinkling, folding and growth. In: Journal of Physics: Conference series, IOP Science, p 012012 

Norbert Stoop, Romain Lagrange, Denis Terwagne, Pedro M. Reis & Jörn Dunkel, “Curvature-induced symmetry breaking determines elastic surface patterns”, Nature Materials, Vol. 14, pp 337-342 (2015)
Norbert Stoop and Martin Michael Mueller, “Non-linear buckling and symmetry breaking of a soft elastic sheet sliding on a cylindrical substrate”, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 75, pp 115-122, October 2015
Matteo Pezzulla, Norbert Stoop, Xin Jiang and D.P. Holmes, “Curvature-driven morphing of non-Euclidean shells”, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Vol. 473, No. 2201, 31 May 2017
Matteo Pezzulla, Norbert Stoop, Mark P. Steranka, Abdikhalaq J. Bade and Douglas P. Holmes, “Curvature-induced instabilities of shells”, Physical Review Letters, June 2017

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