constitutive relation

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constitutive
adjective
uk
/kənˈstɪtʃ.ə.tɪv/
us
/ˈkɑːn.stə.tuː.t̬ɪv/
formal
forming part ...
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relation
noun
uk
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
us
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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Only when the local and instantaneous state of a fluid is regarded as given is theconstitutiverelationlinear in general.
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This dimensionlessconstitutiverelation(2.2)for the oil film is assumed to be given in the following analysis.
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A similarity solution is obtained numerically for unidirectional spreading when some general restrictions concerning the form of the liquid filmconstitutiverelationis made.
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For the fine-scaled turbulent fluid considered here, theconstitutiverelationfollows from (17) above.
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Proceeding on the assumption that elongation of the tuft occurs primarily by fibres sliding past one another, rather than by the fibres deforming elastically, they adopt a viscousconstitutiverelation.
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As a consequence, each branchconstitutiverelationmust give current as a function of voltage; an admittance representation.
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In some special cases theconstitutiverelationsimplifies to a function of one variable.
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Many empirical thermometers rely on theconstitutiverelationbetween pressure, volume and temperature of their thermometric material.
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This is usually taken to be theconstitutiverelation(defining equation) of the inductor.
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This is a non-linear effect of theconstitutiverelationbetween mechanical stress and finite strain in a material of continuous mass.
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Several such principles are essentially based on theconstitutiverelationbetween the state of a suitably selected particular material and its temperature.
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Nonlinear constitutive relations in gasdynamics and then equate terms of the same order in exact.
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In so-called rate independent constitutive relations for soils, stress rate depends upon strain rate as a homogeneous function of degree one.
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The development of understanding made possible by these concrete constitutive relations is the indirect objective referred to above.
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A minimum set of constitutive relations for the linear and quadratic response tensors has thus been identified.
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Constitutive relations specific to our problem were proposed, resulting in the systems (2.23)-(2.28) for unsaturated flow and (2.29)-(2.34) for saturated flow.
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When this simplification is used the corresponding results using the full constitutive relations are also presented for comparison.
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Various standard closure assumptions were made to arrive at the system (2.10)-(2.15), which is in principle closed once constitutive relations for stress and interphase drag have been specified.
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See the main article on constitutive relations for a fuller description.
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