Composite media and homogenization theory. An International Centre for Theoretical Physics workshop, Trieste, Italy, January 15-26, 1990 (Q1188925)

Contents: Giovanni Alberti and Giuseppe Buttazzo, Integral representation of functionals defined on Sobolev spaces (1--12); Marco Avellaneda and Andrew J. Majda, Homogenization and renormalization of multiple-scattering expansions for Green functions in turbulent transport (13--35); N. Bakhvalov and M. Èglit, Properties of averaged models of the periodic media mechanics (37--46); A. Bensoussan, Homogenization of a class of stochastic partial differential equations (47--65); David J. Bergman, Effective medium approximation for nonlinear conductivity of a composite medium (67--79); Lucio Boccardo and François Murat, Homogenization of nonlinear unilateral problems (81--105); G. Bouchitté and P. Suquet, Homogenization, plasticity and yield design (107--133); Ennio De Giorgi, Some remarks on \(\Gamma\)-convergence and least squares method (135--142); Ulrich Hornung, Homogenization of miscible displacement in unsaturated aggregated soils (143--158); E. Ya. Khruslov, Homogenized models of composite media (159--182); Noboru Kikuchi and Katsuyuki Suzuki, Structural optimization of a linearly elastic structure using the homogenization method (183--203); S. M. Kozlov, Geometry and asymptotics in homogenization (205--221); Graeme W. Milton, The field equation recursion method (223--245); Umberto Mosco, Composite media and Dirichlet forms (247--258). The articles will be reviewed individually under the abbreviation ``Composite media and homogenization theory, Proc. Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. Workshop, Trieste/Italy 1990, Prog. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 5 (1991)''.