This collection of 23 articles is the output of lectures in special sessions on The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics within the yearly conferences of the GAMM in the years 2010 in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011 in Graz, Austria, and in 2012 in Darmstadt, Germany; GAMM is the Association for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics , founded in 1922 by Ludwig Prandtl and Richard von Mises. The contributions in this volume discuss different aspects of mechanics. They are related to solid and fluid mechanics in general and to specific problems in these areas including the development of numerical solution techniques. In the first part the origins and developments of conservation principles in mechanics and related variational methods are treated together with challenging applications from the 17th to the 20th century. Part II treats general and more specific aspects of material theories of deforming solid continua and porous soils. and Part III presents important theoretical and engineering developments in fluid mechanics, beginning with remarkable inventions in old Egypt, the still dominating role of the Navier-Stokes PDEs for fluid flows and their complex solutions for a wide field of parameters as well as the invention of pumps and turbines in the 19th and 20th century. The last part gives a survey on the development of direct variational methods - the Finite Element Method - in the 20th century with many extensions and generalizations.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9783642399046
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190272462
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Mechanical Engineering
Author
Erwin Stein
Publication Name
The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Mathematics
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
490 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
1
Item Weight
7548g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Lecture Notes in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics