Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
Apr 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006apei...13..129c&link_type=abstract
Apeiron vol. 13, issue 2, p. 129-161
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
Maxwell'S Electrodynamics, Material Invariance, Oldroyd-Lie Derivative
Scientific paper
Maxwell accounted for the apparent elastic behavior of the electromagnetic field through augmenting Ampere's law by the so-called displacement current much in the same way that he treated the viscoelasticity of gases. Original Maxwell constitutive relations for both electrodynamics and fluid dynamics were not material invariant, while combin- ing Faraday's law and the Lorentz force makes the first of Maxwell's equation material invariant. Later on, Oldroyd showed how to make a viscoelastic constitutive law mate- rial invariant. The main assumption was that the proper description of a constitutive law must be material invariant. Assuming that the electromagnetic field is a material field, we show here that if the upper convected Oldroyd derivative (related to Lie derivative) is used, the displacement current becomes material invariant. The new formulation ensures that the equation for conser- vation of charge is also material invariant which vindicates the choice of Oldroyd derivative over the standard convec- tive derivative. A material invariant field model is by ne- cessity Galilean invariant. We call the material field (the manifestation of which are the equations of electrodynam- ics the metacontinuum), in order to distinguish it form the standard material continua.
Christov Christo I.
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