Variational Models and Methods in Solid and Fluid Mechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: dell’Isola, Francesco (Editor), Gavrilyuk, Sergey (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2012.
• Series: CISM Courses and Lectures, 535
• Subjects: Engineering.; Calculus of variations.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.

Variational methods give an efficient and elegant way to formulate and solve mathematical problems that are of interest to scientists and engineers. In this book three fundamental aspects of the variational formulation of mechanics will be presented: physical, mathematical and applicative ones. The...