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Conservation principles and variational problems

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We show formally that integral conversation equations can be related directly to corresponding integral variational statements, without the usual appeal to the classical differential form and the associated smoothness assumptions.

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  1. Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    G. F. Carey

  2. Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    H. T. Dinh

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Carey, G.F., Dinh, H.T. Conservation principles and variational problems. Acta Mechanica 58, 93–97 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01177109

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