Special Session 4: Mathematical methods in electromagnetism and related topics

Homogenization and 3D-2D dimension reduction of a functional on manifold valued functional spaces.
Elvira Zappale
Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza - University of Rome
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Michela Eleuteri, Luca Lussardi, Andrea Torricelli and Joseph Dongo, Joel Fotso Tachago, Frank Tchinda
Abstract:
Simultaneous dimensional reduction and homogenization is rigorously obtained for integral functionals defined on the manifold constrained Orlicz-Sobolev and BV spaces. The results find application in the study of equilibria for liquid crystals, in ferromagnetism or for magnetostrictive materials where the order parameters take their values into a given manifold.