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<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We study the asymptotic behavior of a three-dimensional elastic material reinforced with highly contrasted thin vertical strips constructed on horizontal iterated Sierpinski gasket curves. We use <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \Gamma $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>-convergence methods in order to study the asymptotic behavior of the composite as the thickness of the strips vanishes, their Lamé constants tend to infinity, and the sequence of the iterated curves converges to the Sierpinski gasket in the Hausdorff metric. We derive the effective energy of the composite. This energy contains new degrees of freedom implying a nonlocal effect associated with thin boundary layer phenomena taking place near the fractal strips and a singular energy term supported on the Sierpinski gasket.</p>

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A computational approach to the investigation of bifurcations, based on the use of a special type of Hermite–Padé approximant, is presented. The first part of this study is a review of a singularity extraction technique based on the assumption that the given series is the local representation of an algebraic function in the independent variable. The principal merit of the procedure is its ability to reveal the underlying problem of the branches solution which are represented by the original series. In the final section, numerical results are presented for Dean flow and two problems coming from heat transfer modelling and whose solutions are obtained by means of a regular perturbation method.