Author	Day, William Alan. author
Title	Heat Conduction Within Linear Thermoelasticity [electronic resource] / by William Alan Day
Imprint	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1985
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9555-3
Descript	VIII, 84 p. online resource

J-B. J. FOURIER'S immensely influential treatise Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur [21J, and the subsequent developments and refinements of FOURIER's ideas and methods at the hands of many authors, provide a highly successful theory of heat conduction. According to that theory, the growth or decay of the temperature e in a conducting body is governed by the heat equation, that is, by the parabolic partial differential equation Such has been the influence of FOURIER'S theory, which must forever remain the classical theory in that it sets the standard against which all other theories are to be measured, that the mathematical investigation of heat conduction has come to be regarded as being almost identicalt with the study of the heat equation, and the reader will not need to be reminded that intensive analytical study has t But not entirely; witness, for example, those theories which would replace the heat equation by an equation which implies a finite speed of propagation for the temperature. The reader is referred to the article [9] of COLEMAN, FABRIZIO, and OWEN for the derivation of such an equation from modern Continuum Thermodyยญ namics and for references to earlier work in this direction. viii Introduction amply demonstrated that the heat equation enjoys many properties of great interest and elegance

1 Preliminaries -- ยง1.1 One-dimensional linear thermoelasticity -- ยง1.2 An energy integral -- 2 The Coupled and Quasi-static Approximation -- ยง2.1 An integro-differential equation -- ยง2.2 Construction of solutions -- ยง2.3 Failure of the Maximum Principle -- ยง2.4 Behaviour of the kernel -- ยง2.5 Initial sensitivity to the boundary -- ยง2.6 A monotone property of the entropy -- 3 Trigonometric Solutions of the Integro-differential Equation -- ยง3.1 Maximum Principles for the pointwise mean total energy density and the pointwise mean square heat flux -- ยง3.2 The effect of coupling on trigonometric solutions -- 4 Approximation by Way of the Heat Equation or the Integro-differential Equation -- ยง4.1 Status of the heat equation -- ยง4.2 Comments on Theorem 13 -- ยง4.3 Proof of Theorem 13 -- ยง4.4 Mean and recurrence properties of the temperature -- ยง4.5 Status of the integro-differential equation -- 5 Maximum and Minimum Properties of the Temperature Within the Dynamic Theory -- ยง5.1 Maximum and minimum properties with prescribed heat fluxes -- ยง5.2 Maximum and minimum properties with prescribed temperatures -- References

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