Abstract
A continuum-mechanical formalism is presented for the phenomenological description of moving, curvilinear, material surfaces in electric fields in interaction with volume-phases. In addition to conventional equations (balance and constitutive laws) the explicit use of relations for the surface geometry is introduced. A method to establish nonlinear constitutive equations by tensorial and thermodynamical considerations is proved to be applicable to two-dimensional continua. The resulting equations for boundaries interacting with adjacent volumes are of practical importance for the selfconsistent calculation of boundary values. The physical meaning of the different relations is discussed.
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