A model for dislocations in epitaxially strained elastic films

2016/05/26 by Fonseca, Irene, Fusco, Nicola, Leoni, Giovanni +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.08432

Abstract

A variational model for epitaxially strained films accounting for the presence of dislocations is considered. Existence, regularity and some qualitative properties of solutions are addressed.

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