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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813874203321

Autore

Saxce Géry de

Titolo

Galilean mechanics and thermodynamics of continua / / Géry de Saxcé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE : , : Wiley, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-119-05809-0

1-119-05803-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics Series

Disciplina

531

Soggetti

Continuum mechanics - Data processing

Laws of thermodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.--