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Variational Analysis of Nematic Shells

Authors : Giacomo Canevari, Antonio Segatti

Published in: Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics

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Abstract

In this note we present some recent results on the Mathematical Analysis of Nematic Shells. The type of results we present deal with the analysis of defectless configurations as well as the analysis of defected configurations. The mathematical tools include Topology, Analysis of Partial Differential Equations as well as Variational Techniques like Γ convergence.

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Metadata
Title
Variational Analysis of Nematic Shells
Authors
Giacomo Canevari
Antonio Segatti
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-75939-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-75940-1

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75940-1_5

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