Linearized elastic shell theory

05.07.2018, 16:15  –  Haus 9, Raum 0.14
Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie

Claudia Grabs

The total elastic energy is an extrinsic geometric functional for an embedding of some body manifold into an ambient space. We want to compute the first and second variation of this extrinsic geometric functional.