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Generalized Variational Principle for Dissipative Hydrodynamics: Shear Viscosity from Angular Momentum Relaxation in the Hydrodynamical Description of Continuum Mechanics

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German A. Maximov

Submitted: February 27th, 2011 Published: December 22nd, 2011

DOI: 10.5772/28406

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Hydrodynamics

Edited by Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco

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Written By

German A. Maximov

Submitted: February 27th, 2011 Published: December 22nd, 2011