Tensor Analysis and Elementary Differential Geometry for Physicists and Engineers

• Main Authors: Nguyen-Schäfer, Hung (Author), Schmidt, Jan-Philip (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Mathematical Engineering, 21
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Continuum mechanics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

Tensors and methods of differential geometry are very useful mathematical tools in many fields of modern physics and computational engineering including relativity physics, electrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), continuum mechanics, aero and vibroacoustics, and cybernetics. This book c...

Table of Contents:

• General Basis and Bra-Ket Notation
• Tensor Analysis
• Elementary Differential Geometry
• Applications of Tensors and Differential Geometry
• Further Reading
• Appendices.