Discrete Mechanics


Concepts and Applications

Discrete Mechanics

Jean-Paul Caltagirone, INP - University of Bordeaux, France


ISBN : 9781786302830

Publication Date : January 2019

Hardcover 328 pp

155.00 USD

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Description


The discrete vision of mechanics is based on the founding ideas of Galileo and the principles of relativity and equivalence, which postulate the equality between gravitational mass and inertial mass. To these principles are added the Hodge–Helmholtz decomposition, the principle of accumulation of constraints and the hypothesis of the duality of physical actions.

These principles make it possible to establish the equation of motion based on the conservation of acceleration considered as an absolute quantity in a local frame of reference, in the form of a sum of the gradient of the scalar potential and the curl of the vector potential. These potentials, which represent the constraints of compression and rotation, are updated from the discrete operators.

Discrete Mechanics: Concepts and Applications shows that this equation of discrete motion is representative of the compressible or incompressible flows of viscous or perfect fluids, the state of stress in an elastic solid or complex fluid and the propagation of nonlinear waves.

Contents


1. Fundamental Principles of Discrete Mechanics.
2. Conservation of Acceleration.
3. Conservation of Mass, Flux and Energy.
4. Properties of the Discrete Formulation.
5. Two-Phase Flows, Capillarity and Wetting.
6. Stresses and Strains in Solids.
7. Multiphysical Extensions.

About the authors/editors


Jean-Paul Caltagirone is Professor Emeritus at INP, University of Bordeaux, France. Over the past decade, his research into continuum mechanics, and particularly fluid mechanics, has led him to develop a discrete theoretical approach to mechanics.

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