Balance Systems and the Variational Bicomplex

• Veröffentlicht in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Datum: 2011
• 1. Verfasser: Preston, S.
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: English
• Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2011
• Online Zugang: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/147185
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Zitieren: Balance Systems and the Variational Bicomplex / S. Preston // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2011. — Т. 7. — Бібліогр.: 20 назв. — англ.

In this work we show that the systems of balance equations (balance systems) of continuum thermodynamics occupy a natural place in the variational bicomplex formalism. We apply the vertical homotopy decomposition to get a local splitting (in a convenient domain) of a general balance system as the su...