Educational, Scientific and Technological Aspects of Mesoscopic Continuum Physics for Waves in Complex Materials

Project Information

ESTWAVE

Grant agreement ID: 238191

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2009

End date 31 March 2012

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 45 000,00

EU contribution € 45 000,00

Coordinated by

TALLINNA TEHNIKAUELIKOOLI KUEBERNEETIKA INSTITUUT
Estonia

Objective

The central topic of this proposal is Mesoscopic Continuum Physics, a theory which is situated between microscopic description which focusses on the individual particle and uses statistical methods and macroscopic phenomenological continuum mechanics, which usually does not take into account microstructure. Mesoscopic Continuum Physics combines aspects of both, it uses the continuum point of view and includes the distribution function as a statistical element. The mesoscopic continuum theory had been developed in the field of liquid crystals, but since then has been successfully applied to theoretical description of granular media and has also been introduced in damage mechanics (micro-cracks). Nevertheless there are only very few numerical calculations in this field, which is due to the fact that the mesoscopic continuum theory uses a higher dimensional space. In special cases like e.g. twist-waves the dimensionality can be reduced.
The idea is to use the finite element method and to compare the results with simulations in the field of mechanics with internal variables.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › physical sciences › condensed matter physics › soft matter physics
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › liquid crystals

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Keywords

• Natural sciences
• liquid crystals
• mesoscopic continuum theory
• numerical methods

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• PEOPLE-2007-2-2.ERG - Marie Curie Action: "European Reintegration Grants"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008
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Funding Scheme

MC-ERG - European Re-integration Grants (ERG)

Coordinator

TALLINNA TEHNIKAUELIKOOLI KUEBERNEETIKA INSTITUUT

• EU contribution: € 45 000,00
• Address: Akadeemia tee, 21 ; 12618 TALLINN ; Estonia
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Total cost: No data