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A Nonlocal Problem Arising in the Study of Magneto-Elastic Interactions

M. Chipot, I. Shafrir, G. Vergara Caffarelli (2008)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

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The energy of magneto-elastic materials is described by a nonconvex functional. Three terms of the total free energy are taken into account: the exchange energy, the elastic energy and the magneto-elastic energy usually adopted for cubic crystals. We focus our attention to a one dimensional penalty problem and study the gradient flow of the associated type Ginzburg-Landau functional. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a classical solution which tends asymptotically for subsequences...

The Placement of Electronic Circuits Problem: A Neural Network Approach

M. Ettaouil, K. Elmoutaouakil, Y. Ghanou (2010)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

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The goal of this paper is to apply the Continuous Hopfield Networks (CHN) to the Placement of Electronic Circuit Problem (PECP). This assignment problem has been expressed as Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP). To solve the PECP via the CHN, we choose an energy function which ensures an appropriate balance between minimization of the cost function and simultaneous satisfaction of the PECP constraints. In addition, the parameters of this ...

Regularization of noncoercive constraints in Hencky plasticity

Jarosław L. Bojarski (2005)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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The aim of this paper is to find the largest lower semicontinuous minorant of the elastic-plastic energy of a body with fissures. The functional of energy considered is not coercive.

Molecular motors and stochastic networks

Reinhard Lipowsky, Steffen Liepelt (2008)

Banach Center Publications

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Molecular motors are nano- or colloidal machines that keep the living cell in a highly ordered, stationary state far from equilibrium. This self-organized order is sustained by the energy transduction of the motors, which couple exergonic or 'downhill' processes to endergonic or 'uphill' processes. A particularly interesting case is provided by the chemomechanical coupling of cytoskeletal motors which use the chemical energy released during ATP hydrolysis in order to generate mechanical...