Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics

2018-12-12
Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics

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  • Author: John G. Papastavridis
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351411616
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 444

Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics provides a concise, comprehensive, and readable introduction to classical tensor calculus - in both holonomic and nonholonomic coordinates - as well as to its principal applications to the Lagrangean dynamics of discrete systems under positional or velocity constraints. The thrust of the book focuses on formal structure and basic geometrical/physical ideas underlying most general equations of motion of mechanical systems under linear velocity constraints. Written for the theoretically minded engineer, Tensor Calculus and Analytical Dynamics contains uniquely accessbile treatments of such intricate topics as: tensor calculus in nonholonomic variables Pfaffian nonholonomic constraints related integrability theory of Frobenius The book enables readers to move quickly and confidently in any particular geometry-based area of theoretical or applied mechanics in either classical or modern form.

A Brief on Tensor Analysis

2012-12-06
A Brief on Tensor Analysis

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  • Author: J.G. Simmonds
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1468401416
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North American Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical En gineering Department at MIT, I had just finished an introductory course in classical mechanics that so impressed me that to this day I cannot watch a plane in flight-especially in a tum-without imaging it bristling with vec tors. Near the end of the course the professor showed that, if an airplane is treated as a rigid body, there arises a mysterious collection of rather simple looking integrals called the components of the moment of inertia tensor. Tensor-what power those two syllables seemed to resonate. I had heard the word once before, in an aside by a graduate instructor to the cognoscenti in the front row of a course in strength of materials. "What the book calls stress is actually a tensor. . . ." With my interest twice piqued and with time off from fighting the brush fires of a demanding curriculum, I was ready for my first serious effort at self instruction. In Los Angeles, after several tries, I found a store with a book on tensor analysis. In my mind I had rehearsed the scene in which a graduate stu dent or professor, spying me there, would shout, "You're an undergraduate.

Tensor Calculus

2012-04-26
Tensor Calculus

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  • Author: J. L. Synge
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 048614139X
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

Fundamental introduction of absolute differential calculus and for those interested in applications of tensor calculus to mathematical physics and engineering. Topics include spaces and tensors; basic operations in Riemannian space, curvature of space, more.

Tensor Analysis

2018-10-08
Tensor Analysis

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  • Author: Heinz Schade
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110404265
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

Tensor calculus is a prerequisite for many tasks in physics and engineering. This book introduces the symbolic and the index notation side by side and offers easy access to techniques in the field by focusing on algorithms in index notation. It explains the required algebraic tools and contains numerous exercises with answers, making it suitable for self study for students and researchers in areas such as solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and electrodynamics. ContentsAlgebraic ToolsTensor Analysis in Symbolic Notation and in Cartesian CoordinatesAlgebra of Second Order TensorsTensor Analysis in Curvilinear CoordinatesRepresentation of Tensor FunctionsAppendices: Solutions to the Problems; Cylindrical Coordinates and Spherical Coordinates

Tensor Algebra and Tensor Analysis for Engineers

2015-03-25
Tensor Algebra and Tensor Analysis for Engineers

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  • Author: Mikhail Itskov
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319163426
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

This is the fourth and revised edition of a well-received book that aims at bridging the gap between the engineering course of tensor algebra on the one side and the mathematical course of classical linear algebra on the other side. In accordance with the contemporary way of scientific publications, a modern absolute tensor notation is preferred throughout. The book provides a comprehensible exposition of the fundamental mathematical concepts of tensor calculus and enriches the presented material with many illustrative examples. In addition, the book also includes advanced chapters dealing with recent developments in the theory of isotropic and anisotropic tensor functions and their applications to continuum mechanics. Hence, this monograph addresses graduate students as well as scientists working in this field. In each chapter numerous exercises are included, allowing for self-study and intense practice. Solutions to the exercises are also provided.

Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces

2013-09-24
Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces

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  • Author: Pavel Grinfeld
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1461478677
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

This textbook is distinguished from other texts on the subject by the depth of the presentation and the discussion of the calculus of moving surfaces, which is an extension of tensor calculus to deforming manifolds. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text invites its audience to take a fresh look at previously learned material through the prism of tensor calculus. Once the framework is mastered, the student is introduced to new material which includes differential geometry on manifolds, shape optimization, boundary perturbation and dynamic fluid film equations. The language of tensors, originally championed by Einstein, is as fundamental as the languages of calculus and linear algebra and is one that every technical scientist ought to speak. The tensor technique, invented at the turn of the 20th century, is now considered classical. Yet, as the author shows, it remains remarkably vital and relevant. The author’s skilled lecturing capabilities are evident by the inclusion of insightful examples and a plethora of exercises. A great deal of material is devoted to the geometric fundamentals, the mechanics of change of variables, the proper use of the tensor notation and the discussion of the interplay between algebra and geometry. The early chapters have many words and few equations. The definition of a tensor comes only in Chapter 6 – when the reader is ready for it. While this text maintains a consistent level of rigor, it takes great care to avoid formalizing the subject. The last part of the textbook is devoted to the Calculus of Moving Surfaces. It is the first textbook exposition of this important technique and is one of the gems of this text. A number of exciting applications of the calculus are presented including shape optimization, boundary perturbation of boundary value problems and dynamic fluid film equations developed by the author in recent years. Furthermore, the moving surfaces framework is used to offer new derivations of classical results such as the geodesic equation and the celebrated Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

Tensor Analysis with Applications in Mechanics

2010
Tensor Analysis with Applications in Mechanics

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  • Author: L. P. Lebedev
  • Publisher: World Scientific
  • ISBN: 9814313998
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 378

1. Preliminaries. 1.1. The vector concept revisited. 1.2. A first look at tensors. 1.3. Assumed background. 1.4. More on the notion of a vector. 1.5. Problems -- 2. Transformations and vectors. 2.1. Change of basis. 2.2. Dual bases. 2.3. Transformation to the reciprocal frame. 2.4. Transformation between general frames. 2.5. Covariant and contravariant components. 2.6. The cross product in index notation. 2.7. Norms on the space of vectors. 2.8. Closing remarks. 2.9. Problems -- 3. Tensors. 3.1. Dyadic quantities and tensors. 3.2. Tensors from an operator viewpoint. 3.3. Dyadic components under transformation. 3.4. More dyadic operations. 3.5. Properties of second-order tensors. 3.6. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a second-order symmetric tensor. 3.7. The Cayley-Hamilton theorem. 3.8. Other properties of second-order tensors. 3.9. Extending the Dyad idea. 3.10. Tensors of the fourth and higher orders. 3.11. Functions of tensorial arguments. 3.12. Norms for tensors, and some spaces. 3.13. Differentiation of tensorial functions. 3.14. Problems -- 4. Tensor fields. 4.1. Vector fields. 4.2. Differentials and the nabla operator. 4.3. Differentiation of a vector function. 4.4. Derivatives of the frame vectors. 4.5. Christoffel coefficients and their properties. 4.6. Covariant differentiation. 4.7. Covariant derivative of a second-order tensor. 4.8. Differential operations. 4.9. Orthogonal coordinate systems. 4.10. Some formulas of integration. 4.11. Problems -- 5. Elements of differential geometry. 5.1. Elementary facts from the theory of curves. 5.2. The torsion of a curve. 5.3. Frenet-Serret equations. 5.4. Elements of the theory of surfaces. 5.5. The second fundamental form of a surface. 5.6. Derivation formulas. 5.7. Implicit representation of a curve; contact of curves. 5.8. Osculating paraboloid. 5.9. The principal curvatures of a surface. 5.10. Surfaces of revolution. 5.11. Natural equations of a curve. 5.12. A word about rigor. 5.13. Conclusion. 5.14. Problems -- 6. Linear elasticity. 6.1. Stress tensor. 6.2. Strain tensor. 6.3. Equation of motion. 6.4. Hooke's law. 6.5. Equilibrium equations in displacements. 6.6. Boundary conditions and boundary value problems. 6.7. Equilibrium equations in stresses. 6.8. Uniqueness of solution for the boundary value problems of elasticity. 6.9. Betti's reciprocity theorem. 6.10. Minimum total energy principle. 6.11. Ritz's method. 6.12. Rayleigh's variational principle. 6.13. Plane waves. 6.14. Plane problems of elasticity. 6.15. Problems -- 7. Linear elastic shells. 7.1. Some useful formulas of surface theory. 7.2. Kinematics in a neighborhood of [symbol]. 7.3. Shell equilibrium equations. 7.4. Shell deformation and strains; Kirchhoff's hypotheses. 7.5. Shell energy. 7.6. Boundary conditions. 7.7. A few remarks on the Kirchhoff-Love theory. 7.8. Plate theory. 7.9. On Non-classical theories of plates and shells

Tensor Analysis and Nonlinear Tensor Functions

2013-06-29
Tensor Analysis and Nonlinear Tensor Functions

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  • Author: Yuriy I. Dimitrienko
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401732213
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 680

Tensor Analysis and Nonlinear Tensor Functions embraces the basic fields of tensor calculus: tensor algebra, tensor analysis, tensor description of curves and surfaces, tensor integral calculus, the basis of tensor calculus in Riemannian spaces and affinely connected spaces, - which are used in mechanics and electrodynamics of continua, crystallophysics, quantum chemistry etc. The book suggests a new approach to definition of a tensor in space R3, which allows us to show a geometric representation of a tensor and operations on tensors. Based on this approach, the author gives a mathematically rigorous definition of a tensor as an individual object in arbitrary linear, Riemannian and other spaces for the first time. It is the first book to present a systematized theory of tensor invariants, a theory of nonlinear anisotropic tensor functions and a theory of indifferent tensors describing the physical properties of continua. The book will be useful for students and postgraduates of mathematical, mechanical engineering and physical departments of universities and also for investigators and academic scientists working in continuum mechanics, solid physics, general relativity, crystallophysics, quantum chemistry of solids and material science.

Tensor Analysis for Physicists

1989-01-01
Tensor Analysis for Physicists

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  • Author: Jan Arnoldus Schouten
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 0486655822
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

This rigorous and advanced mathematical explanation of classic tensor analysis was written by one of the founders of tensor calculus. Its concise exposition of the mathematical basis of the discipline is integrated with well-chosen physical examples of the theory, including those involving elasticity, classical dynamics, relativity, and Dirac's matrix calculus. 1954 edition.

Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics

2013-03-14
Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics

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  • Author: Y.R. Talpaert
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401599882
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 602

This book is designed for students in engineering, physics and mathematics. The material can be taught from the beginning of the third academic year. It could also be used for self study, given its pedagogical structure and the numerous solved problems which prepare for modem physics and technology. One of the original aspects of this work is the development together of the basic theory of tensors and the foundations of continuum mechanics. Why two books in one? Firstly, Tensor Analysis provides a thorough introduction of intrinsic mathematical entities, called tensors, which is essential for continuum mechanics. This way of proceeding greatly unifies the various subjects. Only some basic knowledge of linear algebra is necessary to start out on the topic of tensors. The essence of the mathematical foundations is introduced in a practical way. Tensor developments are often too abstract, since they are either aimed at algebraists only, or too quickly applied to physicists and engineers. Here a good balance has been found which allows these extremes to be brought closer together. Though the exposition of tensor theory forms a subject in itself, it is viewed not only as an autonomous mathematical discipline, but as a preparation for theories of physics and engineering. More specifically, because this part of the work deals with tensors in general coordinates and not solely in Cartesian coordinates, it will greatly help with many different disciplines such as differential geometry, analytical mechanics, continuum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, cosmology, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc ..