Seminar series
Date
Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Dr. Marco Barchiesi
Organisation
Universita di napoli
I will discuss the well-posedness of a new nonlinear model for nematic
elastomers. The main novelty is that the Frank energy penalizes
spatial variations of the nematic director in the deformed, rather
than in the reference configuration, as it is natural in the case of
large deformations.