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CONTINUUM
MODELS AND DISCRETE SYSTEMS
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium (CMDS9)
Istanbul, Turkey 29 June - 3 July 1998
edited by Esin Inan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
& Konstantin Z Markov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
This volume deals with continuum theories of discrete mechanical and thermodynamical
systems in the fields of mathematics, theoretical and applied mechanics, physics,
materials science and engineering.
Contents:
- Statistical Mechanics of Vortex Matter (G Blatter et al.)
-
Order–Disorder and Phase Separation: Modeling Grain Sintering (A Novick-Cohen)
- Self-Consistent Schemes in the Problem of Wave Propagation Through Inhomogeneous Media (S Kanaun)
- Fluid Dynamics of Particulate Suspensions: Selected Topics (D Lhuillier & A Nadim)
- Communication and Cooperation in Complex Bacterial Colonies (E Ben-Jacob)
- Effect of Interfacial Bonding on the Mechanical Properties of Bone Tissue (N Güzelsu)
- Thermodynamics of Chaos (V Berdichevsky)
- Self-Organized Criticality in a Creep-Slip Model of Earthquake Faults (P Hähner & Y Drossinos)
- Observations of Strain Localization and Instabilities in Plastic Deformation of Metals (H Neuhauser et al.)
- The Flux-Line Lattice in Superconductors (E Brandt)
- Some Microscopic Perspectives in Continuum Modeling (A Murdoch)
- Equivalence Groups for Second Order Balance Equations (E Suhubi)
- Towards a United Approach to Fracture Yielding, and Damage (G Del Piero)
- and other papers
Readership: Mathematical and statistical physicists, as well as
researchers in the fields of fluid and solid mechanics, biomechanics, chaos and dynamical systems, and materials science.
| 872pp |
Pub. date: Dec 1998 |