Flow Deformation Fracture Lectures on Fluid Mechanics Mechanics D… 9780521887526

Flow, Deformation and FractureLectures on Fluid Mechanics and the Mechanics of Deformable Solids for Mathematicians and Physicists\nAuthor(s): Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521887526, 978-0521887526\nSynopsis\nOver forty years of teaching experience are distilled into this text. The guiding principle is the wide use of the concept of intermediate asymptotics, which enables the natural introduction of the modeling of real bodies by continua. Beginning with a detailed explanation of the continuum approximation for the mathematical modeling of the motion and equilibrium of real bodies, the author continues with a general survey of the necessary methods and tools for analyzing models. Next, specific idealized approximations are presented, including ideal incompressible fluids, elastic bodies and Newtonian viscous fluids. The author not only presents general concepts.