Continuum mechanics

Viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation.

In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress.

A dilatant (also termed shear thickening) material is one in which viscosity increases with the rate of shear strain.

Linear elasticity is the mathematical study of how solid objects deform and become internally stressed due to prescribed loading conditions.

OpenFOAM (for "Open source Field Operation And Manipulation") is a C++ toolbox for the development of customized numerical solvers, and pre-/post-processing utilities for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

The Cauchy momentum equation is a vector partial differential equation put forth by Cauchy that describes the non-relativistic momentum transport in any continuum.

The stream function is defined for incompressible (divergence-free) flows in two dimensions – as well as in three dimensions with axisymmetry.

A shear stress, denoted τ (Greek: tau), is defined as the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.

The Murnaghan equation of state is a relationship between the volume of a body and the pressure to which it is subjected.

Ahmed Cemal Eringen (born February 15, 1921 in Kayseri, Turkey,) was a Turkish- American engineering scientist.

The membrane theory of shells, or membrane theory for short, describes the mechanical properties of shells when twisting and bending moments are small enough to be negligible.

The Birch–Murnaghan isothermal equation of state, published in 1947 by Francis Birch of Harvard, is a relationship between the volume of a body and the pressure to which it is subjected.

A seismic metamaterial, is a metamaterial that is designed to counteract the adverse effects of seismic waves on artificial structures, which exist on or near the surface of the earth.

Gérard A. Maugin (born December 2, 1944 in Angers - September 22, 2016 in Villejuif) was a French engineering scientist.

Damage mechanics is concerned with the representation, or modeling, of damage of materials that is suitable for making engineering predictions about the initiation, propagation, and fracture of materials without resorting to a microscopic description that would be too complex for practical engineering analysis.

Flexural strength, also known as modulus of rupture, or bend strength, or transverse rupture strength is a material property, defined as the stress in a material just before it yields in a flexure test.