PHYS 567 - Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Faculty of Science

Cartesian tensors; stress; strain and deformation; Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motions; conservation principles, Cauchy's equation of motion; constitutive relations, elasticity, plasticity, linear and nonlinear viscous fluid flow; elastic wave equation and Navier-Stokes equation; similarity, scaling and nondimensionalisation of governing equations. Applications from geophysics, materials science, oceanography, and atmospheric physics. Note: credit may only be obtained for one of PHYS 467 and PHYS 567.

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