Conceptual Structure of Continuum Physics: In Recognition of the Fundamental Contributions of Walter Noll (Paperback, 2020)

Foreword.- Scienti?c Life and Works of Walter Noll.- Rotationally Symmetric Motions and Their Blowup for Incompressible Nonlinearly Elastic and Viscoelastic Annuli.- Interactions in a Multi-scale Representation of Sparse Media: From Mechanics to Thermodynamics.- “Reality” and Representation in Mechanics: The Legacy of Walter Noll.- Elasticity with Hierarchical Disarrangements: A Field Theory That Admits Slips and Separations at Multiple Submacroscopic Levels.- Continuum Mechanics as a Computable Coarse-Grained Picture of Molecular Dynamics.- Material Geometry.- A Causality Setting for Elasticity Theory.- The Symmetries of Octupolar Tensors.- Explicit Relaxation of a Two-Well Hadamard Energy.- The State of Stress and Strain Adjacent to Notches in a New Class of Nonlinear Elastic Bodies.- A Personal Appreciation of Walter Noll.- Macroscopic and Microscopic Behavior of Narrow Elastic Ribbons.- On the Mechanical Modeling of Matter, Molecular and Continuum.- Hyper-stresses in k-Jet Field Theories.- Multi-Component Multiphase Flow Through a Poroelastic Medium.- Solvent-Vapor Induced Spherulitic Growth in Multicomponent Elastic Films.