Galilean mechanics and thermodynamics of continua / Géry de Saxcé, Claude Vallée.

Author/creator Saxce, Géry de.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon, UK : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley and Sons, Inc, [2016]
Descriptionxxviii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesMechanical engineering and solid mechanics series
Mechanical engineering and solid mechanics series. ^A1157181
Abstract This title proposes a unified approach to continuum mechanics which is consistent with Galilean relativity. Based on the notion of affine tensors, a simple generalization of the classical tensors, this approach allows gathering the usual mechanical entities - mass, energy, force, moment, stresses, linear and angular momentum - in a single tensor. Starting with the basic subjects, and continuing through to the most advanced topics, the authors' presentation is progressive, inductive and bottom-up. They begin with the concept of an affine tensor, a natural extension of the classical tensors. The simplest types of affine tensors are the points of an affine space and the affine functions on this space, but there are more complex ones which are relevant for mechanics - torsors and momenta. The essential point is to derive the balance equations of a continuum from a unique principle which claims that these tensors are affine-divergence free.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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LCCN 2015957652
ISBN9781848216426 (hc)
ISBN1848216424 (hc)
ISBN1119058090 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781119058090 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1119057957
ISBN9781119057956

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