Flow, Deformation and Fracture

Foreword Alexandre J. Chorin; Preface; Introduction; 1. Idealized continuous media: the basic concepts; 2. Dimensional analysis and physical similitude; 3. The ideal incompressible fluid approximation: general concepts and relations; 4. The ideal incompressible fluid approximation: analysis and applications; 5. The approximation of a linear elastic solid. Basic equations and boundary value problems of linear theory of elasticity; 6. Approximation of a linear elastic body. Applications: brittle and quasi-brittle fracture, strength of structures; 7. The approximation of Newtonian viscous fluids: general comments and basic relations; 8. Approximation of a Newtonian viscous fluid: the boundary layer; 9. Advanced similarity methods: complete and incomplete similarity; 10. The ideal gas approximation. Sound waves. Shock waves; 11. Turbulence: generalities. Scaling laws for shear flows; 12. Turbulence: mathematical models of turbulent shear flows and of the local structure of turbulent flows at very large Reynolds numbers; Bibliography; Index.