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Continuum Mechanics

Course Type: 
PhD Course
Academic Year: 
2014-2015
Period: 
October-December
Duration: 
40 h
Description: 
  • Kinematics of deformable bodies
  • Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion
  • The balance laws of continuum mechanics: conservation of mass, linear and angular momentum,  and energy
  • Solid mechanics: nonlinear and linearized elasticity
  • Fluid dynamics: the Navier-Stokes equations

 Textbook:  M. Gurtin, Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press 1981

Location: 
A-133
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