Mathematical modeling in continuum mechanics

✍ Scribed by Roger Temam; Alain Miranville

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: 2ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Temam and Miranville present core topics within the general themes of fluid and solid mechanics. The brisk style allows the text to cover a wide range of topics including viscous flow, magnetohydrodynamics, atmospheric flows, shock equations, turbulence, nonlinear solid mechanics, solitons, and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This second edition will be a unique resource for those studying continuum mechanics at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level whether in engineering, mathematics, physics or the applied sciences. Exercises and hints for solutions have been added to the majority of chapters, and the final part on solid mechanics has been substantially expanded. These additions have now made it appropriate for use as a textbook, but it also remains an ideal reference book for students and anyone interested in continuum mechanics

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A few words about notations; PART I FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CHAPTER ONE Describing the motion of a system: geometry and kinematics; CHAPTER TWO The fundamental law of dynamics; CHAPTER THREE The Cauchy stress tensor and the Piola-Kirchhoff tensor. Applications; CHAPTER FOUR Real and virtual powers; CHAPTER FIVE Deformation tensor, deformation rate tensor, constitutive laws; CHAPTER SIX Energy equations and shock equations; PART II PHYSICS OF FLUIDS; CHAPTER SEVEN General properties of Newtonian fluids.
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Topics include: viscous flow, magnetohydrodynamics, atmospheric flows, shock equations, turbulence, nonlinear solid mechanics and solitons. Read more...