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SUMMARY:Analysis of coupled phase-field models describing damage phenomena
  - Heinemann\, C (Weierstra-Institut fr Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik
 )
DTSTART:20140626T142000Z
DTEND:20140626T145000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors: Christiane Kraus (WIAS Berlin)\, Elisabetta Rocca 
 (WIAS Berlin / University of Pavia) \n\nIn this talk we are going to inves
 tigate evolution inclusions describing damage processes in elastic media w
 hich are coupled with further physical phenomena such as heat conduction o
 r phase separation. The main difficulty in the analysis of these PDE syste
 ms is the irreversibility condition for the damage progression. To handle 
 this highly nonlinear behavior we develop an appropriate notion of weak so
 lution consisting of a variational inequality and a full energy inequality
 . Results ensuring the existence of weak solutions will be presented. The 
 talk is based on joint works with C. Kraus (WIAS) and E. Rocca (WIAS/Unive
 rsity of Pavia).\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Newton Institute Gatehouse
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