Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces

Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces
Author: Pavel Grinfeld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461478677

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This textbook is distinguished from other texts on the subject by the depth of the presentation and the discussion of the calculus of moving surfaces, which is an extension of tensor calculus to deforming manifolds. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text invites its audience to take a fresh look at previously learned material through the prism of tensor calculus. Once the framework is mastered, the student is introduced to new material which includes differential geometry on manifolds, shape optimization, boundary perturbation and dynamic fluid film equations. The language of tensors, originally championed by Einstein, is as fundamental as the languages of calculus and linear algebra and is one that every technical scientist ought to speak. The tensor technique, invented at the turn of the 20th century, is now considered classical. Yet, as the author shows, it remains remarkably vital and relevant. The author’s skilled lecturing capabilities are evident by the inclusion of insightful examples and a plethora of exercises. A great deal of material is devoted to the geometric fundamentals, the mechanics of change of variables, the proper use of the tensor notation and the discussion of the interplay between algebra and geometry. The early chapters have many words and few equations. The definition of a tensor comes only in Chapter 6 – when the reader is ready for it. While this text maintains a consistent level of rigor, it takes great care to avoid formalizing the subject. The last part of the textbook is devoted to the Calculus of Moving Surfaces. It is the first textbook exposition of this important technique and is one of the gems of this text. A number of exciting applications of the calculus are presented including shape optimization, boundary perturbation of boundary value problems and dynamic fluid film equations developed by the author in recent years. Furthermore, the moving surfaces framework is used to offer new derivations of classical results such as the geodesic equation and the celebrated Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

A Brief on Tensor Analysis

A Brief on Tensor Analysis
Author: James G. Simmonds
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1441985220

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In this text which gradually develops the tools for formulating and manipulating the field equations of Continuum Mechanics, the mathematics of tensor analysis is introduced in four, well-separated stages, and the physical interpretation and application of vectors and tensors are stressed throughout. This new edition contains more exercises. In addition, the author has appended a section on Differential Geometry.

Tensor Analysis on Manifolds

Tensor Analysis on Manifolds
Author: Richard L. Bishop
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486139239

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DIVProceeds from general to special, including chapters on vector analysis on manifolds and integration theory. /div

Tensor Calculus for Physics

Tensor Calculus for Physics
Author: Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 142141564X

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It is an ideal companion for courses such as mathematical methods of physics, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and relativity.--Gary White, editor of The Physics Teacher "American Journal of Physics"

Vector and Tensor Analysis with Applications

Vector and Tensor Analysis with Applications
Author: A. I. Borisenko
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486131904

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Concise, readable text ranges from definition of vectors and discussion of algebraic operations on vectors to the concept of tensor and algebraic operations on tensors. Worked-out problems and solutions. 1968 edition.

Tensor Analysis

Tensor Analysis
Author: Liqun Qi
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1611974755

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Tensors, or hypermatrices, are multi-arrays with more than two indices. In the last decade or so, many concepts and results in matrix theory?some of which are nontrivial?have been extended to tensors and have a wide range of applications (for example, spectral hypergraph theory, higher order Markov chains, polynomial optimization, magnetic resonance imaging, automatic control, and quantum entanglement problems). The authors provide a comprehensive discussion of this new theory of tensors. Tensor Analysis: Spectral Theory and Special Tensors is unique in that it is the first book on these three subject areas: spectral theory of tensors; the theory of special tensors, including nonnegative tensors, positive semidefinite tensors, completely positive tensors, and copositive tensors; and the spectral hypergraph theory via tensors.

Tensor and Vector Analysis

Tensor and Vector Analysis
Author: C. E. Springer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 048632091X

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Assuming only a knowledge of basic calculus, this text's elementary development of tensor theory focuses on concepts related to vector analysis. The book also forms an introduction to metric differential geometry. 1962 edition.

Introduction to Vector and Tensor Analysis

Introduction to Vector and Tensor Analysis
Author: Robert C. Wrede
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486137112

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Examines general Cartesian coordinates, the cross product, Einstein's special theory of relativity, bases in general coordinate systems, maxima and minima of functions of two variables, line integrals, integral theorems, and more. 1963 edition.

Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications

Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications
Author: Ralph Abraham
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461210291

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The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid me chanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and control thcory arc given in Chapter 8, using both invariant and index notation. The current edition of the book does not deal with Riemannian geometry in much detail, and it does not treat Lie groups, principal bundles, or Morse theory. Some of this is planned for a subsequent edition. Meanwhile, the authors will make available to interested readers supplementary chapters on Lie Groups and Differential Topology and invite comments on the book's contents and development. Throughout the text supplementary topics are given, marked with the symbols ~ and {l:;J. This device enables the reader to skip various topics without disturbing the main flow of the text. Some of these provide additional background material intended for completeness, to minimize the necessity of consulting too many outside references. We treat finite and infinite-dimensional manifolds simultaneously. This is partly for efficiency of exposition. Without advanced applications, using manifolds of mappings, the study of infinite-dimensional manifolds can be hard to motivate.

Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics

Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics
Author: Wilhelm Flügge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642883826

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Through several centuries there has been a lively interaction between mathematics and mechanics. On the one side, mechanics has used mathemat ics to formulate the basic laws and to apply them to a host of problems that call for the quantitative prediction of the consequences of some action. On the other side, the needs of mechanics have stimulated the development of mathematical concepts. Differential calculus grew out of the needs of Newtonian dynamics; vector algebra was developed as a means . to describe force systems; vector analysis, to study velocity fields and force fields; and the calcul~s of variations has evolved from the energy principles of mechan ics. In recent times the theory of tensors has attracted the attention of the mechanics people. Its very name indicates its origin in the theory of elasticity. For a long time little use has been made of it in this area, but in the last decade its usefulness in the mechanics of continuous media has been widely recognized. While the undergraduate textbook literature in this country was becoming "vectorized" (lagging almost half a century behind the development in Europe), books dealing with various aspects of continuum mechanics took to tensors like fish to water. Since many authors were not sure whether their readers were sufficiently familiar with tensors~ they either added' a chapter on tensors or wrote a separate book on the subject.