作者	A.P.S.Selvadurai著
出版社
出版时间	2004-04-01

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Thematerialpresentedinthesemonographsistheoutcomeoftheauthor'slong-standinginterestintheanalyticalmodellingofproblemsinmechanicsbyappealtothetheoryofpartialdifferentialequations.Theimpetusforwritingthesevolumeswastheopportunitytoteachthesubjectmattertobothundergraduateandgraduatestudentsinengineeringatseveraluniversities.Theapproachisdistinctlydifferenttothatwhichwouldadoptedshouldsuchacoursebegiventostudentsinpuremathematics;inthissense,theteachingofpartialdifferentialequationswithinanengineeringcurriculumshouldbeviewedinthebroaderperspectiveof"TheModellingofProblemsinEngineering".Anengineeringstudentshouldbegiventheopportunitytoappreciatehowthevariouscombinationofbalancelaws,conservationequations,kinematicconstraints,constitutiveresponses,thermodynamicrestrictions,etc.,culminatesinthedevelopmentofapartialdifferentialequation,orsetsofpartialdifferentialequations,withpotentialforapplicationstoengineeringproblems.Thisabilitytodistillallthediverseinformationaboutaphysicalormechanicalprocessintopartialdifferentialequationsisaparticularattractionofthesubjectarea.