Thu, 05 Jun 2014
12:00 -
13:00
L6
A nonlinear model for nematic elastomers
Dr. Marco Barchiesi
(Universita di napoli)
Abstract
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.