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On the difference between a bounding surface and a material surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

E. B. Dussan V
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19174

Abstract

The ideas of Lagrange, Poisson, Kelvin and Truesdell are reviewed. It is shown that in order for a bounding surface not to be a material surface either u. n = c must fail or more than one deformation can be associated with the velocity field. Examples are given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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