ABSTRACT

Composite materials are those made of two or more constituent materials of different physical properties, whose physical characteristics differ from those of its individual components. Thin and composite structures are of extreme importance for applications in engineering (building blocks, boats, aircraft design) and understanding some structures in nature (bones, tissue, blood vessels, wood), in particular there, where they are subject to fluid loads. Analysis of those kind of complex multi-physics systems is from mathematical point of view very challenging. Typically, it involves systems of nonlinear partial differential equations, which itself pose challenging questions like the existence of solutions and their long time behaviour.

Aims of the project are in: 

• derivation of lower dimensional models in elasticity for highly oscillating materials and related optimal design problems,
• derivation and analysis of fluid-structure interaction problems, which includes derivation of appropriate coupling conditions, well-posedness and asymptotic stability analysis.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND PROJECT COORDINATOR

Dr. sc. Igor Velčić, assistant professor

University of Zagreb,

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,

Department of Applied Mathematics

Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb,

Croatia

e-mail: igor.velcic@fer.hr

HOST INSTITUTION

University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

PROJECT DETAILS