Variational Methods for Discontinuous Structures
Subtitle: International Workshop in Villa Erba (Cernobbio), Italy, July 2001 (Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications)
Contributors: Gianni Dal Maso (Editor); Franco Tomarelli (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: January 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9783764369132
Subjects: Mathematics; Materials For Engineering; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Mathematical Analysis; Calculus; Differential Equations; Mathematics / Differential Equations; Partial differential equations; functional analysis; numerical analysis; Applied; Material Science; Calculus Of Variations; Congresses; Materials; Mathematical models
First sentence: In the Weiss-Landau-Lifschitz model of the micromagnetic theory (which we do not want to discuss here in detail, referring the reader e.g. to [6]), the total energy associated with a single crystal (or "grain" ) of a magnetic material is given by the sum of several contributions.