Dynamics of Director Fields

DOI10.1137/0151075zbMath0761.35063OpenAlexW2052359902WikidataQ54165779 ScholiaQ54165779MaRDI QIDQ3989405

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0151075

zbMATH Keywords

weak solutions variational principle quasilinear wave equation Euler-Lagrange equation Ansatz of weakly nonlinear geometrical optics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Unilateral problems for linear hyperbolic equations and variational inequalities with linear hyperbolic operators (35L85) Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99)

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