Determination of variation in continuum mechanics
Abstract
The principal types of variations used in continuum mechanics are defined, and relationships between different types of vector and tensor variations are established. Particular attention is given to simple types of variations used in developing models of continua in special relativity. Infinitely small variations of scalars, vectors, and tensors are examined in the four-dimensional space.
- Publication:
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Prikladnaia Matematika i Mekhanika
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984PriMM..48..904T
- Keywords:
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- Continuum Mechanics;
- Continuum Modeling;
- Relativity;
- Variational Principles;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Minkowski Space;
- Scalars;
- Tensors;
- Vectors (Mathematics);
- Physics (General)