Continuum Modeling: An Approach Through Practical Examples
Springer | Mathematics | Sept. 14 2015 | ISBN-10: 3319221310 | 73 pages | pdf | 1.4 mb

by Adrian Muntean (Author)
derivation of global integral laws together with the associated local differential equations

About this Book
This book develops continuum modeling skills and approaches the topic from three sides: (1) derivation of global integral laws together with the associated local differential equations, (2) design of constitutive laws and (3) modeling boundary processes. The focus of this presentation lies on many practical examples covering aspects such as coupled flow, diffusion and reaction in porous media or microwave heating of a pizza, as well as traffic issues in bacterial colonies and energy harvesting from geothermal wells. The target audience comprises primarily graduate students in pure and applied mathematics as well as working practitioners in engineering who are faced by nonstandard rheological topics like those typically arising in the food industry

Number of Illustrations and Tables
2 illus., 5 in colour

Topics
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
Measure and Integration
Partial Differential Equations
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics