An Efficient Curvature-Based Synthesis Methodology for Rotationally Symmetric Shaped Reflector Antennas by Manushanker Balasubramanian, Douglas H. Werner

“…A previously proposed B-spline curvature-based synthesis technique is extended and applied to the design of rotationally symmetric reflector antennas with shaped beam patterns. …”
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Quasinormal modes of regular black holes with sub-Planckian curvature and Minkowskian core by Chen Tang, Yi Ling, Qing-Quan Jiang, Guo-Ping Li

“…Abstract We investigate the perturbation of the scalar field as well as the electromagnetic field over a sort of regular black holes which are characterized by the sub-Planckian curvature and the Minkowskian core. Specifically, we compute the quasinormal modes (QNMs) by employing the pseudo-spectral method. …”
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Identification of Damage in a Beam Structure by Using Mode Shape Curvature Squares by S. Rucevskis, M. Wesolowski

“…From the mode shapes, mode shape curvatures are obtained by using a central difference approximation. …”
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Some Curvature Conditions on a Para-Sasakian Manifold with Canonical Paracontact Connection by Bilal Eftal Acet, Erol Kılıç, Selcen Yüksel Perktaş

“…We also investigate some properties of curvature tensor, conformal curvature tensor, W2-curvature tensor, concircular curvature tensor, projective curvature tensor, and pseudo-projective curvature tensor with respect to canonical paracontact connection on a para-Sasakian manifold. …”
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Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Functionally Graded Timoshenko Curved Beams with Variable Curvatures by Ze-Qing Wan, Shi-Rong Li, Hong-Wei Ma

“…In this paper, geometrically nonlinear analysis of functionally graded curved beams with variable curvatures based on Timoshenko beam theory is presented. …”
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Sharp Curvature of Premolar Resulting in External Apical Root Resorption of the Neighbouring Molar by Özgür İlke Atasoy Ulusoy

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Experimental investigation on effect of corrosion on curvature-ductility relationship of RCC member in flexure by P N Ojha, Sumit Kumar, Puneet Kaura, Brijesh Singh, Pranay Singh

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Simplified Data-Driven Model for the Moment Curvature of T-Shaped RC Shear Walls by Bin Wang, Wenzhe Cai, Qingxuan Shi

“…Sectional deformation quantities, such as curvature and ductility, are of prime significance in the displacement-based seismic design and performance evaluation of structural members. …”
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Effects of the Transverse Curvature on the Statistics of Fully Developed Turbulent Flow in an Annular Pipe by Manna Marcello, Vacca Andrea

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Some Properties of Curvature Tensors and Foliations of Locally Conformal Almost Kähler Manifolds by Ntokozo Sibonelo Khuzwayo, Fortuné Massamba

“…We show that a locally conformal almost Kähler manifold admits a canonical foliation whose leaves are hypersurfaces with the mean curvature vector field proportional to the Lee vector field. …”
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Existence and regularity of weak solutions to the prescribed mean curvature equation for a nonparametric surface by P. Amster, M. Cassinelli, M. C. Mariani, D. F. Rial

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Modelling of the Curvature Term of the Flame Surface Density Transport Equation for Large Eddy Simulations by Mohit Katragadda, Nilanjan Chakraborty

“…Subsequently, these contributions of the curvature term have been split into the resolved and subgrid contributions. …”
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Location-Dependent Prediction of Dynamic Stability Limit for Peripheral Milling of Surfaces with Variable Curvatures by Baosheng Wang, Hongyan Hao, Mulan Wang, Junming Hou

“…The stability limit may change with the cutter’s location due to effect of curvature during the milling of a complex surface. …”
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Complete Self-Shrinking Solutions for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow in Pseudo-Euclidean Space by Ruiwei Xu, Linfen Cao

“…Let f(x) be a smooth strictly convex solution of det(∂2f/∂xi∂xj)=exp(1/2)∑i=1nxi(∂f/∂xi)-f defined on a domain Ω⊂Rn; then the graph M∇f of ∇f is a space-like self-shrinker of mean curvature flow in Pseudo-Euclidean space Rn2n with the indefinite metric ∑dxidyi. …”
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Association between Axial Length to Corneal Curvature Radius Ratio and Myopia in Adult Patients by Yanyun Fan, Yikeng Huang, Xionggao Huang

“…To analyze the distribution characteristics of axial length to corneal curvature radius ratio (AL/CR) and other ocular biometric parameters in adult myopia patients and their association with myopia. …”
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Rotation-Invariant Convolution With Point Sort and Curvature Radius for Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation by Zhao Shen, Xin Jia, Jinglei Zhang

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MAPPING DRYNESS TIME-SCALES IN THE CURVATURE CARPATHIANS AND SUBCARPATHIANS (ROMANIA) BY THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX by ANDUŢA GROFU, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ, CĂTĂLINA MĂRCULEŢ, LOREDANA-ELENA MIC

Subjects: “…Curvature Carpathians and Subcarpathians…”
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Landmark Optimization Using Local Curvature for Point-Based Nonlinear Rodent Brain Image Registration by Yutong Liu, Balasrinivasa R. Sajja, Mariano G. Uberti, Howard E. Gendelman, Tammy Kielian, Michael D. Boska

“…Point landmarks are placed at regular intervals on contours of anatomical features, and their positions are optimized along the contour surface by a function composed of curvature similarity and displacements of the homologous landmarks. …”
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A Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Variable Curvature Directional Binary Statistics by Min Li, Xue Jiang, Honghao Zhu, Fei Liu, Huabin Wang, Liang Tao, Shijun Liu

“…However, in locally prominent areas with visible veins, other characteristics such as directionality, convexity–concavity, and curvature also play a crucial role in recognition, and their impact cannot be overlooked. …”
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A Volume Comparison Estimate with Radially Symmetric Ricci Curvature Lower Bound and Its Applications by Zisheng Hu, Yadong Jin, Senlin Xu

“…We extend the classical Bishop-Gromov volume comparison from constant Ricci curvature lower bound to radially symmetric Ricci curvature lower bound, and apply it to investigate the volume growth, total Betti number, and finite topological type of manifolds with nonasymptotically almost nonnegative Ricci curvature.…”
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