Applied Math/PDE Seminar: Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh), 'Nonlinear elastic theories with prestrain' (Host : C. Garcia-Cervera)

Event Date: 

Friday, October 26, 2012 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4607B South Hall

Event Contact: 

Carlos Garcia-Cervera
Email: cgarcia@math.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893 3681

This talk will concern the analysis and the rigorous derivation of elastic shell models for thin films exhibiting residual stress at free equilibria. Examples of such structures include growing tissues (e.g. leaves). There, it is conjectured that the driving phenomenon is the formation of non-Euclidean 'target metrics', leading to complicated morphogenesis of the tissue which tries to adapt itself to its internally imposed metric. I will present some analytical results pertaining to the dimension reduction, convergence of equilibria, and convergence of discrete models.