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Systems of Conservation Laws

LA-UR 99-3985

8/2/99

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Table of Contents

Principle of Conservation (fixed regions)

Principle of Conservation (moving regions) 

Distributional Form of Conservation Laws

Generalizations and Specializations

Differential Form of the Conservation Laws

Continuum Flows

Flow Fields

Reynold’s Transport Theorem 

Conservation of Mass

Conservation of Momentum

Conservation of Energy

Creation of Entropy (Second Law of Thermodynamics)

Constitutive Equations (closure of the systems)

Constitutive Equations (equations of state)

Constitutive Equations (incomplete equations of state)

Exercises 

Further Reading

Author: John W. Grove
              Hydrodynamics Methods Group
              Los Alamos National Laboratory
              Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Email: jgrove@lanl.gov