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The underlying goal of this Master's thesis is of laying down, in so far as possible, the foundations for later work in Geometric Stochastic Mechanics. The first part is a presentation of symplectic reduction, going through the momentum map and culminating ...
The Monge problem [23], [27], as reformulated by Kantorovich [19], [20] is that of the transportation, at a minimum "cost", of a given mass distribu- tion from an initial to a final position during a given time interval. It is an optimal transport problem ...
We study some mechanical problems in which a friction force is acting on a system. Using the fundamental concepts of state, time evolution and energy conservation, we explain how to extend Newtonian mechanics to thermodynamics. We arrive at the two laws of ...
Analytical solutions to problems of solids mechanics are useful to test the accuracy and the precision of the numerical approaches. Problems such as shear locking or boundary layer can be better understood with the help of analytical solutions. However, it ...
For a class of second order quasilinear elliptic equations we establish the existence of two non-negative weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem on a bounded domain, Omega. Solutions of the boundary value problem are critical points of C-1-functional on H ...
The goal of this short presentation is to introduce Geometric Mechanics as well as Asynchronous Variational Integrators (AVI). The geometric point of view in mechanics combined with solid analysis has been a phenomenal success in linking various diverse ar ...
In this thesis we describe a path integral formalism to evaluate approximations to the probability density function for the location and orientation of one end of a continuum polymer chain at thermodynamic equilibrium with a heat bath. We concentrate on th ...
This paper presents a unified thermo-mechanical experimental study on a remoulded unsaturated sandy silt and brings a contribution to the understanding of the fundamental mechanics of unsaturated soils in non- isothermal conditions. The experimental progra ...
We present a fully Hamiltonian and computationally efficient scheme to include the electrostatic effects due to the classical environment in a Car-Parrinello mixed quantum mechanics/mol. mechanics (QM/MM) method. The polarization due to the MM atoms close ...
The computation of glacier movements leads to a system of nonlinear partial differential equations. The existence and uniqueness of a weak solution is established by using the calculus of variations. A discretization by the finite element method is done. T ...
