Mehrzad Tabatabaian

Tensor Analysis for Engineers

Transformations - Mathematics - Applications

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781683926016
• ISBN-10: 1683926013
• Artikelnr.: 60411935

Autorenporträt

Mehrzad Tabatabaian, PhD, PEng, is currently Chair of the BCIT School of Energy Research Committee. He has published several papers for scientific journals and has written textbooks on multiphysics modelling and thermodynamics. He holds several registered patents in the energy field and teaches courses in renewable energy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Coordinate systems
3. Curvilinear and oblique coordinate systems
4. Basis vectors and scale factors
5. Contravariant components and transformations
6. Physical components and transformations
7. Tensors - mixed and metric
8. Metric tensor operation on tensor indices
9. Dot and cross products of tensors
10. Gradient vector operator-Christoffel symbols
11. Derivative forms-curl, divergence, Laplacian
12. Cartesian tensor transformation-rotations
13. Coordinate independent governing equations
14. Collection of relations for selected coordinate systems
15. Rigid body rotation: Euler angles, quaternions, and rotation matrix
16. Worked-out examples
17. Exercises
References
Index