Abstract:We present recent results on the use of the oriented boundary (signed, algebraic) distance function and the tangential differential calculus in the intrinsic modelling of thin/shallow shells. We provide the link with covariant operators and show how to express them without Christoffel symbols. Such models are mathematically more tractable than classical ones.
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