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Workshop on Geometry and Symmetry in Continuum Mechanics

December 9-15, 2001

Coventry, United Kingdom

Mathematics

Host: Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick
Homepage: http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~mark/symposium/

Description:
Hamiltonian methods in fluid mechanics and elasticity theory; the influence of symmetries. Multi-symplectic geometry and applications to PDEs. Geodesic flows on infinite dimensional Lie groups and applications. Integrable systems in continuum mechanics. Geometric integration methods for Hamiltonian continuum mechanics. Stability, bifurcations and dynamics of: fluid flows, vortices, liquid crystals, elastic rods, shells,...

Date received: November 15, 2001


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