Univalent σ-harmonic mappings: Applications to composites

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2002, Pages 379-406

  Alessandrini, Giovanni ^a   Nesi, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Effective properties; Harmonic mappings; Quasiregular mappings

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; THEOREM PROVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

HARMONIC MAPPING; QUASICONFORMAL MAPPING; QUASIREGULAR MAPPING; TWO DIMENSIONAL LINEAR CONDUCTIVITY;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 0036412374     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2002060     Document Type: Article

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