Continuous Media with Microstructure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Albers, Bettina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Continuum mechanics.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.

The contributions to the book concern various aspects of extension of classical continuum models. These extensions are related to the appearance of microstructures both natural as well as these created by processes. To the first class belong various thermodynamic models of multicomponent systems suc...