Mathematical Models and Methods in Mechanics

Warsaw: PWN, 1985 8vo (24.5 cm), 725 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities and dusted). Banach Center Publications Volume 15. Contents include: "Asymptotic methods applied to problems of diffusion, crack propagation and crack tip stress analysis" by C. Atkinson; "On thermodynamics and stability of continuous media" by C. E. Beevers; "Introductory remarks to the dynamics of continua with microstructure" by G. Capriz; "Mathematical problems in the kinetic theory of gases" by Carlo Cercignani; "Notes on some recent methods in bifurcation theory" by D. R. J. Chillingworth; "Boundary integral equations for mixed boundary value problems in polygonal domains and Galerkin approximation" by Martin Costabel, Ernst Stephan; "On the Stefan problem: the variational approach and some applications" by Alain Damlamian; "Mathematical foundation of flow of glaciers and large ice masses" by Kolumban Hutter; "Some multiple-part Wiener-Hopf problems in mathematical physics" by E. Meister; "Thermodynamics of simple mixtures of fluids with application to second sound and liquid helium" by Ingo Müller; "Mathematical models of phenomenological piezoelectricity" by W. Nowacki; ""Best possible'' maximum principles" by L. E. Payne; "On stability and growth of solutions for classes of initial and boundary value problems" by L. E. Payne; "Lectures on constitutive expressions" by G. F. Smith; "Marginally Stable inviscid flows with critical layers" by K. Stewartson.