Discoveries and surprises in the non-local Calculus of Variations

Abstract: Peridynamics stands as a main application of non-local variational problems in Continuum Mechanics. Yet from the mathematical point of view many of the important issues behind are formally similar, after suitable non-local reinterpretation of tools, to the classic local framework. Though this is no doubt surprising and reassuring, we will try to push non-locality to find some situations where things are really different. Some of the simplest examples will serve to illustrate how different things may be.

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Audience: researchers in the topic

Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics

Series comments: This seminar was founded on December 14, 1966.

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, Prague 8. If not written otherwise, we will meet on Mondays at 15:40 in lecture hall K3 (2nd floor)