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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2011, Article ID 906475, 24 pages doi:10.1155/2011/906475 Research Article Stability of Membrane Elastodynamics with Applications to Cylindrical Aneurysms A. Samuelson and P. Seshaiyer Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Correspondence should be addressed to P. Seshaiyer, pseshaiy@ Received 26 January 2011; Accepted 10 May 2011 Academic Editor: Edward Swim Copyright q 2011 A. Samuelson and P. Seshaiyer. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The enlargement and rupture of intracranial and abdominal aortic aneurysms constitutes a major medical problem. It has been suggested that enlargement and rupture are due to mechanical instabilities of the associated complex fluid-solid interaction in the lesions. In this paper, we examine a coupled fluid-structure mathematical model for a cylindrical geometry representing an idealized aneurysm using both analytical and numerical techniques. A stability analysis for this subclass of aneurysms is presented. It is shown that this subclass of aneurysms is dynamically stable both with and without a viscoelastic contribution to the arterial wall. 1. Introduction An arterial aneurysm is a focal dilatation or lesion of the vascular wall. It is thought that two to five percent of the general population of the Western world harbors ruptured or unruptured saccular aneurysms. Such aneurysms may remain dormant for years or even decades. These lesions are more common in women than in men, and they tend to manifest themselves during the fifth