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| I will discuss the opportunity of reformulating the celebrated Souza-Auricchio phenomenological model for shape-memory alloys within the GENERIC variational frame. In particular, the thermomechanical evolution of the medium is rephrased as a generalized gradient flow of its entropy. This variational structure can be efficiently exploited in connection with approximations. I will comment of this perspective both from the theoretical and the numerical viewpoint. |
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