Energy Methods in Continuum Mechanics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Workshop on Energy Methods for Free Boundary Problems in Continuum Mechanics, held in Oviedo, Spain, March 21-23, 1994
By: edited by S. N. Antontsev, J. I. Díaz, S. I. Shmarev
Contributors: Díaz, J. I.; Shmarev, S. I.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789401066389; 9789400903371
Subjects: Mechanics; Engineering; Materials; Differential equations, partial
Other titles: Proceedings of the Workshop on Energy Methods for Free Boundary Problems in Continuum Mechanics, held in Oviedo, Spain, March 21-23, 1994
Description: This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Energy Methods for Free Boundary Problems in Continuum Mechanics, held in Oviedo, Spain, 21-23 March 1994. It is well known that the conservation laws and the constitutive equations of Continuum Mechanics lead to complicated coupled systems of partial differential equations to which, as a rule, one fails to apply the techniques, such as the maximum principle, usually employed in the studies of scalar uncoupled equations. The study of the qualitative behaviour of solutions of the systems requires different techniques, such as the so-called Energy Methods where the properties of some integral of a non-negative function of one or several unknowns allow one to arrive at important conclusions on the involved unknowns. This volume presents the state of the art in such a technique. Special attention is paid to the class of Free Boundary Problems. Audience: Researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, and professionals active in physics, engineering and applied mathematics.
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