Trends in Continuum Physics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Scientific Committee

• Preface

• Some Remarks on Thermodynamical Terminology

• Simulation of Percolation Through Porous Media Using Particle Dynamics

• Magnetoinduced Microplasticity of Nonmagnetic Crystals

• The Methods of Resonant Excitation of Surface Waves in Crystals

• Dynamical Stability of Thin Shells with Thermal Convection

• Two-Phase One-Component System as a Continuum with an Internal Structure

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cation Substitutions in YBa₂Cu₃O₇

• Solution of Inverse Heat Conduction Problem with the Use of New Type of Finite Element Base Functions

• Heat Polynomials Applied to Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems

• Minkowski Space as a Model of Anisotropic Pore Space of Permeable Materials: Modelling of the Skeleton Pore Structure

• An Application of a Geometrical Framework to Anelastic Systems

• Applying Special Ateb-Functions in Construction Boundary Problem Solutions for Some Nonlinear Wave Equations

• Cardiac Dynamics Involving Arrhythmias and Continuum Mechanics

• On a Problem of Boundary Temperature Identification in a Cylindrical Layer

• Propagation of the Periodic Waves in an Elastic Layer Covered by Spring Masses

• Some Remarks on the Conductivity Coefficient Identification

• Thermomechanical Coupling in Viscoplasticity: Constitutive Modelling of Shape-Memory Behaviour

• Exploiting the Dissipation Inequality in Case of Constrained State Space Variables

• The Stability of the Method of Fictitious Sources in an Inverse Heat Conduction Problem for a Layer

• Nonclassical Heat Transport and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

• Concepts of Theoretical Foundations for Biomechanics Based on Multiscale Modelling

• Modeling of Ultrasonic Waves in Magnetic Liquids: Two Phase Approach

• Deformation and Fracture of Polymers: Relativistic Approach

• Matrix Analysis Approach to Determination of Entropies for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Equations

• Transformations of Dependent Variables and Alternative Symmetric Systems Corresponding to Consistent System of N+1 Conservation Equations

• Mechanics of a Vortex Lattice in Superconductors: Phenomenological Approach

• Mechanism of Interactions and Diffusion in the Food Microstructure Systems

• Modelling of Molecule Vibration in the Dispersive Systems

• Nonlinear Thermomechanics of Electroelasticity Useful in Smart Materials and Structures

• Thermodynamical Models of Continual Description of the Coupled Processes in Thin-Film Systems

• Liquid Crystal Theory as an Example of Mesoscopic Continuum Mechanics

• An Interaction of Simple Solitary Waves with Profiles in the Form of Chebyshov–Hermite, Mathieu, Whittaker Functions Propagating in Media with the Microstructure

• Drying Induced Stresses as a Function of the Temperature of Drying Medium

• Temperature Dependence of the Electrical Conductivity in Glasses with Two Types of Hopping Centres

• Reason of Ambiguity in Electromagneto-Mechanical Interactions

• Propagation of Disturbances Along Axial Lines of Tectonic Flows Under Conditions of Continuum Destruction

• A Cell Dynamical System Model for Simulation of Continuum Dynamics of Turbulent Fluid Flows

• Work Criteria for Creation and Destruction of Nonequilibrium Structures Stemming from Thermodynamics

• Impact of Structural Damage to Surface Morphology of the Thoratic Aorta Wall Affected by Hypodynamic Stress

• The Acoustic Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions of Isopropanol

• Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics and the Motion of Continua

• Physics and Mechanics of Ice Cover Break Up Technology

• List of Participants