Discrete-to-continuum limits for strain-alignment-coupled systems: magnetostrictive solids, ferroelectric crystals and nematic elastomers

DOI10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667zbMath1183.49013OpenAlexW2088216383WikidataQ59202216 ScholiaQ59202216MaRDI QIDQ2268227

Marco Cicalese, Caterina Ida Zeppieri, Antonio De Simone

Publication date: 10 March 2010

Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667

zbMATH Keywords

linear elasticity discrete systems $\Gamma$-convergence liquid crystals magnetostrictive solids nematic elastomers ferroelectric crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics (82D45) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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