Continuum mechanics using Mathematica. Fundamentals, applications, and scientific computing. With CD-ROM. (Q819242)

Intended as a companion for textbooks in mathematical methods for science, engineering and technology, this book presents the mathematical tools required to correctly formulate and solve problems in continuum mechanics. The volume covers essential principles and fundamental applications, and provides a solid basis for a deeper study of more challenging and specialized problems related to elasticity, fluid mechanics, plasticity, materials with memory, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, magneto-fluid mechanics, and state changes. The accompanying CD-ROM contains many programs written with Mathematica. This user-friendly software is unique in the literature and allows readers to quickly solve complex, time-consuming problems related to the application areas covered. Mathematica-based programs apply to topics such as the equivalence of applied vector systems, differential operators in curvilinear coordinates, kinematic fields, deformation theory, classification of system of partial differential equations, representation of motion of perfect fluids by complex functions, waves in solids, and so on. The book will be an invaluable reference for all those with active interest in the areas of continuum mechanics and its fundamental applications: balance laws, constitutive axioms, linear elasticity, fluid dynamics, waves, etc. It may serve as a supplement to any of the standard textbooks for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researches in applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering.