Seminar series
Date
Mon, 01 Jul 2019
Time
15:00 -
16:00
Location
C6
Speaker
Athanasios Tzavaras
Organisation
KAUST
The stabilization of thermo-mechanical systems is a classical problem in thermodynamics and well
understood in a context of gases. The objective of this talk is to indicate the role of null-Lagrangians and
certain transport/stretching identities in stabilizing thermomechanical systems associated with general
thermoelastic free energies. This allows to prove various convergence results among thermomechan-
ical theories, and suggests a variational scheme for the approximation of the equations of adiabatic
thermoelasticity.