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Asynchronous Variational Integrators for Solid Mechanics
Colloquium| Speaker: | Matthew West, California Institute of Technology |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Apr 10 2002, 4:10PM |
Discrete variational mechanics provides a geometric foundation for understanding symplectic-momentum and multisymplectic-momentum integrators for mechanical ODEs and PDEs. In this talk we will discuss the variational multisymplectic formulation of continuum mechanics, focusing on classical solid mechanics, and show how discretizations of this can be used to construct spacetime asynchronous integrators. These methods have a number of appealing theoretical and practical properties, as will be demonstrated on some simple elastodynamics problems.
(Coffee & cookies @ 3:45 in 550 Kerr )