Abstract: After a brief discussion of some undesirable features of a number of different partial differential equations often employed in the existing literature on water waves, a relatively simple ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the implications of a modified form of an inequality proposed recently by Green and Naghdi [3] in regard to the classical statements of the second law of ...

Abstract: A thermodynamical inequality is obtained for mixtures of interacting continua; it represents the analogue of a corresponding inequality for single phase media contained in a paper of Green and ...

Abstract: A constrained theory of shells by a direct approach, based on a general theory of a Cosserat surface, is derived and its relation to other recent developments obtained by direct procedures ...