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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Water Resour. 2009 May 1;32(5):681–711. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.10.013
_ closure of set (overline)
〈 〉 averaging operator
D/Dt material derivative
∂′/∂t partial derivative of a point on a potentially moving interface
∇′ microscale surficial del operator on an interface
∇(·)|_ spatial derivative of the thermodynamic function (·) taken with the quantities listed following the vertical bar held constant