Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 90672, 21 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/90672
Research Article
A Mixture Theory for Micropolar Thermoelastic Solids
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Iaşi, Iaşi 700506, Romania
Received 5 August 2007; Accepted 12 November 2007
Academic Editor: J. Richard Barber
Copyright © 2007 C. Galeş. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We derive a nonlinear theory of
heat-conducting micropolar mixtures in Lagrangian description. The kinematics, balance laws, and constitutive equations are examined and utilized to develop a nonlinear theory for binary mixtures of micropolar thermoelastic solids. The initial boundary value problem is formulated. Then, the theory is linearized and a uniqueness result is established.