Hamilton’s principle (or the principle of stationary action) is one of the basic modelling tools in classical mechanics. It states that the reversible motion of a mechanical system is completely determined by the corresponding Lagrangian which is the difference between the kinetic and potential energy of the system.
The extension of Hamilton’s principle to the continuum mechanics involving...
In a series of papers over 9 years (2004-2012), Howard Brenner (1929--2013) [who was emeritus professor at MIT in chemical engineering] proposed a new theory in compressible fluid mechanics with high gradient of density based on the concept of two different velocities: the mass and the volume velocities. At the same time, D.B. with B. Desjardins discovered (with E. Zatorska later on) that a...
