Physics of Continuous Matter

       Exotic and everyday phenomena in the macroscopic world

       Benny Lautrup
            The Niels Bohr Institute
            Copenhagen, Denmark

           Revision number 7.7,  Januar 22, 2004.     

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            Title

            Contents

            Preface

1. Continuous matter

2. Space and time

3. Gravity

4. Fluids at rest

5. Buoyancy

6. Planets and stars

7. Hydrostatic shapes

8. Surface tension

9. Stress

10. Strain

11. Linear elasticity

12. Solids at rest

13. Elastic vibrations

14. Numeric elastostatics

15. Matter in motion

16. Nearly ideal flow.

17. Global laws of balance

18. Viscosity

19. Channels and pipes

20. Creeping flow

21. Computational fluid dynamics

22. Small-amplitude surface waves

23. Whirls and vortices

24. Lubrication

25. Boundary layers

26. Rotating fluids

27. Subsonic flight

28. Heat

29. Convection

30. Nonlinear waves

31. Turbulence

1. Units and constants

2. Newtonian particle mechanics

3. Curvilinear coordinates

4. Thermodynamics of ideal gases

   Answers to problems

  Bibliography

  Index