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时间:2019-07-20
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1、IntroductiontoTensorCalculusandContinuumMechanicsbyJ.H.HeinbockelDepartmentofMathematicsandStatisticsOldDominionUniversityPREFACEThisisanintroductorytextwhichpresentsfundamentalconceptsfromthesubjectareasoftensorcalculus,dierentialgeometryandcontinuummechanics.Thematerialpresentedissuitableforatwos
2、emestercourseinappliedmathematicsandisflexibleenoughtobepresentedtoeitherupperlevelundergraduateorbeginninggraduatestudentsmajoringinappliedmathematics,engineeringorphysics.Thepresentationassumesthestudentshavesomeknowledgefromtheareasofmatrixtheory,linearalgebraandadvancedcalculus.Eachsectioninclude
3、smanyillustrativeworkedexamples.Attheendofeachsectionthereisalargecollectionofexerciseswhichrangeindiculty.Manynewideasarepresentedintheexercisesandsothestudentsshouldbeencouragedtoreadalltheexercises.Thepurposeofpreparingthesenotesistocondenseintoanintroductorytextthebasicdenitionsandtechniquesar
4、isingintensorcalculus,dierentialgeometryandcontinuummechanics.Inparticular,thematerialispresentedto(i)developaphysicalunderstandingofthemathematicalconceptsassociatedwithtensorcalculusand(ii)developthebasicequationsoftensorcalculus,dierentialgeometryandcontinuummechanicswhichariseinengineeringappl
5、ications.Fromthesebasicequationsonecangoontodevelopmoresophisticatedmodelsofappliedmathematics.Thematerialispresentedinaninformalmannerandusesmathematicswhichminimizesexcessiveformalism.Thematerialhasbeendividedintotwoparts.Therstpartdealswithanintroduc-tiontotensorcalculusanddierentialgeometrywhi
6、chcoverssuchthingsastheindicialnotation,tensoralgebra,covariantdierentiation,dualtensors,bilinearandmultilinearforms,specialtensors,theRiemannChristoeltensor,spacecurves,surfacecurves,cur-vatureandfundamentalquadraticforms.Thesecondpartemphasizestheapplicationoftensoralgebraandcalculustoawidevarie
7、tyofappliedareasfromengineeringandphysics.Theselectedapplicationsarefromtheareasofdynamics,elasticity,fluidsandelectromag-netictheory.Thecontinuummechanicsportionfocusesonanintroductionofthebasicconcep
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