| Abstract: | A unified approach is made to the construction of mathematical models describing discontinuous processes, and their analogs in the region of continuous solutions are presented; this makes it possible to distinguish between idealized and actual discontinuities and to classify media on the basis of model equations. The media considered are characterized by physical and geometric nonlinearity and by dissipation due to either viscosity or to the coupling of strain and temperature fields.Institute of Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, Tallin. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 41–48, January–February, 1976. |
