The geometry of Cauchy's fluxes (Q1587920)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1538590
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The geometry of Cauchy's fluxes
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1538590

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    The geometry of Cauchy's fluxes (English)
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    7 December 2000
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    The Cauchy theory for balance laws of scalar valued quantities is given a nice formulation in the general setting of an \(m\)-dimensional orientable manifold \(S\) without any further geometrical structure. The basic idea is to replace the densities in the Cauchy theorem for fluxes by differential forms.
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    Cauchy theorem
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    fluxes
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    differential forms
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