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We now consider the growth of biological structures that can be modeled as two-dimensional objects; that is, three-dimensional bodies that have a transverse length scale much smaller than the other two typical length scales.
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Goriely, A. (2017). Accretive Growth. In: The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 45. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87710-5_7
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