Seminar series
Date
Mon, 21 Apr 2008
17:00
17:00
Location
L3
Speaker
V.P. Smyshlyaev
Organisation
University of Bath
Multi-well relaxation problem emerges e.g. in characterising effective properties of composites and in phase transformations. This is a nonlinear problem and one approach uses its reformulation in Fourier space, known in the theory of composites as Hashin-Shtrikman approach, adapted to nonlinear composites by Talbot and Willis. Characterisation of admissible mixtures, subjected to appropriate differential constraints, leads to a quasiconvexification problem. The latter is equivalently reformulated in the Fourier space as minimisation with respect to (extremal points of) H-measures of characteristic functions (Kohn), which in a sense separates the microgeometry of mixing from the differential constraints. For three-phase mixtures in 3D we obtain a full characterisation of certain extremal H-measures.
This employs Muller's Haar wavelet expansion estimates in terms of Riesz transform to establish via the tools of harmonic analysis weak lower semicontinuity of certain functionals with rank-2 convex integrands. As a by-product, this allows to fully solve the problem of characterisation of quasiconvex hulls for three arbitrary divergence-free wells. We discuss the applicability of the results to problems with other kinematic constraints, and other generalisations. Joint work with Mariapia Palombaro, Leipzig.