Lecturer:
Course Type:
PhD Course
Academic Year:
2016-2017
Period:
October-February
Duration:
60 h
Description:
Description:
- Reminders on Linear Algebra and Tensor Calculus
- Kinematics of deformable bodies
- Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion
- The balance laws of continuum mechanics: Balance of linear and angular momentum, Energy balance and dissipation inequality, Conservation of mass
- Constitutive Equations
- Fluid dynamics: the Navier Stokes equations
- Solid mechanics: nonlinear and linearized elasticity
- Selected topics from the mechanics of biological systems
Books:
- M. Gurtin, Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press 1981
- M. Gurtin, L. Anand, and E. Fried, The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua, Cambridge UP 2010
- P. Ciarlet, Mathematical Elasticity, Elsevier 1993
Research Group:
Location:
A-133