Mathematical Models and Methods in Mechanics (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Banach Center Publications, Vol. 15)

Oversized cloth hardcover, primarily in English (3 papers in Russian), 725 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight over 1.2kg. Lower and upper board edges affected by foxing, else great shape. Pages are untanned, clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Dust jacket with sunning to the spine and edges, frayed spine ends, moderate edgewear. -- "The subject of the XVIIIth Semester at the Banach International Mathematical Center was mathematical models in mechanics. For the first time a whole semester in the center was devoted to the interaction of mathematics and mechanics. The main topics presented were: bifurcation theory and stability, kinetic theory of gases, diffusion, thermodynamics, crack propagation, constitutive equations, boundary layers. This volume will be of interest to scientists working in the field of applied mathematics and theoretical mechanics." -- Contents: Asymptotic methods applied to problems of diffusion, crack propagation and crack tip stress analysis / C. Atkinson, University of Pittsburgh; On thermodynamics and stability of continuous media / Cliff Beevers, Heriot-Watt University; Introductory remarks to the dynamics of continua with microstructure / Gianfranco Capriz, Istituto per l'Elaborazione dell'Informazione (IEI) CNR, Pisa; Mathematical problems in the kinetic theory of gases / Carlo Cercignani, Politecnico di Milano; Notes on some recent methods in bifurcation theory / David Chillingworth, University of. Southampton; Boundary integral equations for mixed boundary value problems in polygonal domains and Galerkin approximation / Martin Costabel & Ernst Stephan, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt; On the Stefan problem: the variational approach and some applications / Alain Damlamian, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau; Mathematical foundation of flow of glaciers and large ice masses / Kolumban Hutter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Stability, controllability, observability of nonlinear mechanical systems with applications to problems of rigid body dynamics [IN RUSSIAN] / Alexander M. Kovalev, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Donetsk; Some multiple-part Wiener-Hopf problems in mathematical physics / Erhard Meister, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt; On the reducibility of differential equations of nonlinear mechanics [IN RUSSIAN] / Yurii Mitropolsky, Institute of Mathematics NAS of Ukraine; Mathematical issues of brittle fracture theory [IN RUSSIAN] / Nikita F. Morozov, Leningrad/Saint Petersburg State University; Thermodynamics of simple mixtures of fluids with application to second sound and liquid helium / Ingo Müller, Hermann Föttinger Institut; Mathematical models of phenomenological piezoelectricity / Wojciech Nowacki, Warsaw; "Best possible" maximum principles / Lawrence E. Payne, Cornell University; On stability and growth of solutions for classes of initial and boundary value problems / Lawrence E. Payne; Lectures on constitutive expressions / Gerald F. Smith, Lehigh University; Marginally stable inviscid flows with critical layers / Keith Stewartson, University College London.…