On the Polar Nature and Invariance Properties of a Thermomechanical Theory for Continuum-on-Continuum Homogenization

Kranthi K. Mandadapu, B. Emek Abali, Panayiotis Papadopoulos

This paper makes a rigorous case for considering the homogenized continuum derived by the Irving-Kirkwood procedure as a polar medium in which the balances of angular momentum and…