Author: Nhan Phan-Thien
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: viscoelasticity, understanding
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2002-07-02
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3540433953
ISBN-13: 9783540433958

Viscoelasticity (or rheology) is a highly mathematical subject, interfacing several disciplines, from applied mathematics to mechanics and engineering. Other books on rheology are usually comprehensive to such a degree that students find it hard to isolate the important physical principles and develop good analytical skills for solving useful engineering problems. In this book, the necessary background for understanding viscoelasticity is covered; both the continuum and microstructure approaches to modelling viscoelastic materials are discussed, since neither approach alone is sufficient. The

Authors:Nhan Phan-Thien, Sangtae Kim,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: computational, methods, principles, media, elastic, microstructures
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-08-25
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195090861
ISBN-13: 9780195090864

This monograph describes various methods for solving deformation problems of particulate solids, taking the reader from analytical to computational methods. The book is the first to present the topic of linear elasticity in mathematical terms that will be familiar to anyone with a grounding in fluid mechanics. It incorporates the latest advances in computational algorithms for elliptic partial differential equations, and provides the groundwork for simulations on high performance parallel computers. Numerous exercises complement the theoretical discussions, and a related set of self-documen