25 offprints 1959-1970 often with co-authors on mathematics, thermodynamics, physics, rheology, mechanics
Wraps. Coleman was a senior fellow at the Mellon Institute, and he remained there from 1957 to 1988. During this time, he was also a professor of mathematics (1967-1988), professor of biology (1974-1988), and professor of chemistry (1984-1988) at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988 he moved to Rutgers University to become the J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Thermomechanics, serving as director of the graduate program in mechanics. The contributions to rheology made by Professor Coleman and his collaborators include theoretical studies of viscometric flows of non-Newtonian fluids, linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity, thermodynamics of deforming materials, wave propagation in nonlinear visco-elastic materials, stability of various classes of flows and deformations, and the birefringence of flowing and deforming materials. His work is noted for its mathematical rigor, whilst also focusing on key results that can be compared with appropriate experimental data. He was awarded the Bingham Medal in 1984. He often collaborated with Walter Noll, his longtime colleague at CMU. In no particular order we have: The Thermodynamics of Elastic Materials with Heat Conduction and Viscosity (1963, with Walter Noll); Waves in Materials with Memory, I - V (5 offprints, 1965-66, with Morton E. Gurtin, Ismael Herrera, and James Greenberg); On the Stability of Equilibrium States of General Fluids (1970); On the Stability of Solutions of Functional-Differential Equations (1968, with Victor J. Mizel); On the Thermodynamics of Continuous Media (1959, with Walter Noll, minor stains to front cover); On the use of suymmetry to simplify the constitutive equations of isotropic materials with memory (1968); Simple Fluids with Fading Memory (1962, with Walter Noll); Steady Extension of Incompressible Simple Fluids (1962, with Walter Noll); Thermodynamics and Departures from Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction (1963, with Victor J. Mizel); Thermodynamics and one dimensional shock waves in materials with memory (1966, with M. E. Gurtin); Thermodynamics and the Stability of Fluid Motion (1967, with James M. Greenberg); Thermodynamics and Wave Propagation (1966, with Morton E. Gurtin); Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory (1964); Thermodynamics with Internal State Variables (1967, with Morton E. Gurtin); Instability, Uniqueness, and Nonexistence Theorems for the Equation ut=uxx uxtx on a strip (1965, with Richard J. Duffin & Victor J. Mizel); On Thermodynamics, Strain Impulses, and Viscoelasticity (1964); On Thermodynam ic Conditions for the Stability of Evolving Systems (1968, with Victor J. Mizel); On the General Theory of Fading Memory (1968, with Victor J. Mizel); Norms and Semi-Groups in the Theory of Fading Memory (1966, with Victor J. Mizel); Material Symmetry and Themostatic Inequalities in Finite Elastic Deformations (1964, with Walter Noll); On the Stability of Certain Motions of Incompressible Materials with Memory (1968, with Ellis H. Dill). Besides Noll, as one can see, Coleman worked frequently with Morton E. Gurtin and Victor J. Mizel. Gurtin was also a professor of mathematics at CMU. His main work was in materials science, in the form of the mathematical, rational mechanics of non-linear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, in the style of Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll, a field also known under the combined name of continuum thermomechanics. Victor Mizel also was a professor at CMU, where he specialized in the mathematical analysis of elasticity. From the collection of Juan Jorge Schäffer, math professor at CMU. Each one has a small pencil annotation in upper right corner. Very good. Item #H30263
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