{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q765033","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q765033","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q765033","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-18T05:41:10Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q765033","name":"The co-divergence of vector valued currents","headline":"The co-divergence of vector valued currents","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6015403","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q765033","datePublished":"2012-03-19","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q332484"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q658708"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q187082"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.687","url":"https://doi.org/10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.687"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.687"],"comment":"In the context of stress theory of the mechanics of continuous media, a generalization of the boundary operator for de Rham currents -- the co-divergence operator is introduced. While the boundary operator of de Rham's theory applies to real valued currents, the co-divergence operator acts on vector valued currents, i.e., functionals dual to differential forms valued in a vector bundle. From the point of view of continuum mechanics, the framework presented here allows for the formulation of the principal notions of continuum mechanics on a manifold that does not have a Riemannian metric or a connection while at the same time allowing irregular bodies and velocity fields.  This work consists of the following basic parts: introduction; notation and preliminaries; the velocity field on a body as a vector valued current; the velocity field on the boundary of a body as a vector valued current; the Cauchy-stress as a vector valued form; the variational-stress as a vector valued form; the Cauchy-stress induced by a variational stress; the divergence of a variational stress; the case where the vector bundle is trivial; the boundary and co-divergence of a vector field; the boundary of a vector field in case of a trivial bundle; the co-divergence in the general case; the co-divergence for the case of a trivial bundle."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-18T05:41:10Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}