Universal coercivity in linear elasticity and some image processing results

Mon, 30/01/2012
17:00
Kewei Zhang (Swansea University) Partial Differential Equations Seminar Add to calendar Gibson 1st Floor SR
In the first part, a variational model for composition of finitely many strongly elliptic homogenous elastic materials in linear elasticity is considered. The notion of`universal coercivity' for the variational integrals is introduced which is independent of particular compositions of materials involved. Examples and counterexamples for universal coercivity are presented. In the second part, some results of recent work with colleagues on image processing and feature extraction will be displayed.