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We now return to the balances of Chap. 3 and rewrite them for arbitrary coordinate systems. We start with the balances in regular points and, in this context, with the simplest one, namely the balance of mass, which is a scalar equation. We then move on to the more complex ones for momentum, energy, as well as total angular momentum, and specify them for cylindrical and spherical coordinates. As before we follow both ways and present the balances in index form as well as symbolically. The chapter ends with a discussion of the jump conditions and of global balances in arbitrary coordinates.
There are two sides of the balance sheet—the left side and the right side.
On the left side, nothing is right, and on the right side, nothing is left !
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Müller, W.H. (2014). Balance Equations in Skew Curvilinear Coordinate Systems. In: An Expedition to Continuum Theory. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 210. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7799-6_5
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