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"Packed with examples and illustrations to describe complex concepts and mathematical derivations, and including end-of-chapter problems with helpful hints, this thorough and accessible textbook is the ideal introduction to continuum thermodynamics for senior undergraduate and graduate students of mechanical, aeronautical and civil engineering"--
List of contents
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical prerequisites; 3. Kinematics of a continuum and integral rules; 4. Continuum mechanics; 5. Introduction to continuum thermodynamics; 6. Axioms of thermodynamics and their consequences; 7. Special cases of continuum thermodynamics and validation of material models; 8. Material models for heat conduction and time-independent deformation; 9. Material models for creep; 10. Damage; 11. Introduction to material models in fluid mechanics; References; Appendices; Index.
About the author
Kari Santaoja is a Senior University Lecturer emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is a member of the Finnish Association for Structural Mechanics.J. N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and holder of the O'Donnell Foundation Chair IV of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A & M University. He is internationally recognized for his research and education in applied and computational mechanics, and is the author of several hundred journal articles and twenty-four textbooks, including Finite Element and Finite Volume Methods for Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics (Cambridge University Press: 2022); Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press: 2013); and Principles of Continuum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press: 2009). He has been awarded The Leonardo da Vinci Award, the IACM (Gauss-Newton) Medal, the ASME Timoshenko Medal, the ASCE Theodore von Karman Medal, and the USACM John von Neumann Medal, among others. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of five other academies.
