Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph (in two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configuations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. The presentation is selfcontained and accessible to non specialists. Topics are treated as far as possible in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples; in principle, chapters and even sections are readable independently of the general context, so that parts can be easily used for graduate courses. Open questions are often mentioned and the final section of each chapter discusses references to the literature and sometimes supplementary results. Finally, a detailed Table of Contents and an extensive Index are of help to consult this monograph
Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-scalar variational problems appear in different fields. In geometry, for in stance, we encounter the basic problems of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds and of minimal immersions; related questions appear in physics, for example in the classical theory of a-models. Non linear elasticity is another example in continuum mechanics, while Oseen-Frank theory of liquid crystals and Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity require to treat variational problems in order to model quite complicated phenomena. Typically one is interested in finding energy minimizing representatives in homology or homotopy classes of maps, minimizers with prescribed topological singularities, topological charges, stable deformations i. e. minimizers in classes of diffeomorphisms or extremal fields. In the last two or three decades there has been growing interest, knowledge, and understanding of the general theory for this kind of problems, often referred to as geometric variational problems. Due to the lack of a regularity theory in the non scalar case, in contrast to the scalar one - or in other words to the occurrence of singularities in vector valued minimizers, often related with concentration phenomena for the energy density - and because of the particular relevance of those singularities for the problem being considered the question of singling out a weak formulation, or completely understanding the significance of various weak formulations becames non trivial.
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Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations I written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph (in two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configuations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. The presentation is selfcontained and accessible to non specialists. Topics are treated as far as possible in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples; in principle, chapters and even sections are readable independently of the general context, so that parts can be easily used for graduate courses. Open questions are often mentioned and the final section of each chapter discusses references to the literature and sometimes supplementary results. Finally, a detailed Table of Contents and an extensive Index are of help to consult this monograph
Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations I written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph (in two volumes) deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configuations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. The presentation is selfcontained and accessible to non specialists. Topics are treated as far as possible in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples; in principle, chapters and even sections are readable independently of the general context, so that parts can be easily used for graduate courses. Open questions are often mentioned and the final section of each chapter discusses references to the literature and sometimes supplementary results. Finally, a detailed Table of Contents and an extensive Index are of help to consult this monograph
Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations V II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calculus of Variations written by Izrail Moiseevitch Gelfand and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, lively text serves as a modern introduction to the subject, with applications to the mechanics of systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom.Ideal for math and physics students.
Download or read book Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems AM 105 Volume 105 written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems. (AM-105), Volume 105, will be forthcoming.
Download or read book Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Elliptic Systems. (AM-105), Volume 105, will be forthcoming.
Download or read book Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations written by Enrico Giusti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the existence and regularity of minima of regular integrals in the calculus of variations and of solutions to elliptic partial differential equations and systems of the second order. While direct methods for the existence of solutions are well known and have been widely used in the last century, the regularity of the minima was always obtained by means of the Euler equation as a part of the general theory of partial differential equations. In this book, using the notion of the quasi-minimum introduced by Giaquinta and the author, the direct methods are extended to the regularity of the minima of functionals in the calculus of variations, and of solutions to partial differential equations. This unified treatment offers a substantial economy in the assumptions, and permits a deeper understanding of the nature of the regularity and singularities of the solutions. The book is essentially self-contained, and requires only a general knowledge of the elements of Lebesgue integration theory.
Download or read book Topics in the Calculus of Variations written by Martin Fuchs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates two basic principles in the calculus of variations which are the question of existence of solutions and closely related the problem of regularity of minimizers. Chapter one studies variational problems for nonquadratic energy functionals defined on suitable classes of vectorvalued functions where also nonlinear constraints are incorporated. Problems of this type arise for mappings between Riemannian manifolds or in nonlinear elasticity. Using direct methods the existence of generalized minimizers is rather easy to establish and it is then shown that regularity holds up to a set of small measure. Chapter two contains a short introduction into Geometric Measure Theory which serves as a basis for developing an existence theory for (generalized) manifolds with prescribed mean curvature form and boundary in arbitrary dimensions and codimensions. One major aspect of the book is to concentrate on techniques and to present methods which turn out to be useful for applications in regularity theorems as well as for existence problems.
Download or read book Introduction To The Calculus of Variations And Its Applications written by Frederic Wan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text provides all information necessary for an introductory course on the calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Following a thorough discussion of the basic problem, including sufficient conditions for optimality, the theory and techniques are extended to problems with a free end point, a free boundary, auxiliary and inequality constraints, leading to a study of optimal control theory.
Download or read book Calculus of Variations I written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume treatise is a standard reference in the field. It pays special attention to the historical aspects and the origins partly in applied problems—such as those of geometric optics—of parts of the theory. It contains an introduction to each chapter, section, and subsection and an overview of the relevant literature in the footnotes and bibliography. It also includes an index of the examples used throughout the book.
Download or read book Calculus of Variations I written by Mariano Giaquinta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume treatise is a standard reference in the field. It pays special attention to the historical aspects and the origins partly in applied problems—such as those of geometric optics—of parts of the theory. It contains an introduction to each chapter, section, and subsection and an overview of the relevant literature in the footnotes and bibliography. It also includes an index of the examples used throughout the book.
Download or read book Variational Calculus in Science and Engineering written by Marvin J. Forray and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxima and minima -- Introductory problems of the variational calculus -- Euler-Lagrange development with applications -- Hamilton's principle and Lagrange's equations -- Deformable bodies : theory of elasticity -- Energy principles, methods, and applications -- Rayleigh-Ritz method -- Methods of Galerkin, Kantorovich, and Euler -- Appendix : Summation convention and Cartesian tensors.
