Selected problems in materials science.
In the last two decades or so, materials science has quickly become a main area of research in applied mathematics, and now it is a vast subject. Therefore, the author touches upon only a few topics which are of the interest to the author (thus one of the most important models in materials science, the Cahn-Hilliard equation is not discussed here), e.g. micromagnetics, epitaxial growth of crystals, superconductivity, liquid crystals and polymer systems. The author compares the models in the above-mentioned four areas with the traditional models in applied mathematics, such as fluid mechanics, and concludes that materials science poses many new challenges. Then in thenext four sections the models are derived very briefly, and the known results and open problems are stated. Finally, some conclusions are drawn and a long list of references is given. I think this article is a good guide for mathematicians who are interested in models arising in these four areas of materials science. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0955.00011].
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- Some mathematical challenges in materials science
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