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On the differentiation of tensor functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

David Durban
Affiliation:
Technion, Haifa, Israel and DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Abstract

A new method for generating tensorial derivatives of tensor functions is proposed. The method is based on the use of tensors as absolute entities along with the advantages offered by their decomposition on an orthonormal base.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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