数学物理学报(英文版) ›› 2012, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 84-108.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(12)60006-X

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ABOUT TWO TYPES OF MICROSTRUCTURES ADAPTED TO HEAT EVACUATION AND ELASTIC STRESS: SNOW FLAKES AND QUASI-CRYSTALS

Luc Tartar   

  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
  • 收稿日期:2011-08-30 出版日期:2012-01-20 发布日期:2012-01-20
  • 基金资助:

    Research supported by ONR Grant N000140910301.

ABOUT TWO TYPES OF MICROSTRUCTURES ADAPTED TO HEAT EVACUATION AND ELASTIC STRESS: SNOW FLAKES AND QUASI-CRYSTALS

Luc Tartar   

  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
  • Received:2011-08-30 Online:2012-01-20 Published:2012-01-20
  • Supported by:

    Research supported by ONR Grant N000140910301.

摘要:

I first met Constantine Dafermos in August 1974, at a meeting at Brown University, where I was invited because my former advisor (Jacques-Louis LIONS) could not come, and he had proposed my name. I was happily surprised that Constantine greeted me as if he knew me well, and since for many years now I have considered him as if he was an older brother, I wonder when this feeling started.
I do not remember when I told him that my paternal grandmother (Cecilia) had a Greek passport, which was not uncommon for Christian families in Syria, since most of them followed the Greek Orthodoxrite, and I now wonder if it played a role in the divorce of my grandparents, after my grandfather (Elias) switched to a more evangelical faith, and became a little excessive about religion: my father (Georges) once mentioned that when he had some argument with his father and he wanted to annoy him, he went to the Sunday offce at the Greek Orthodox1 church .
Becoming friend with Constantine was natural for human reasons, but also for scientific

Abstract:

I first met Constantine Dafermos in August 1974, at a meeting at Brown University, where I was invited because my former advisor (Jacques-Louis LIONS) could not come, and he had proposed my name. I was happily surprised that Constantine greeted me as if he knew me well, and since for many years now I have considered him as if he was an older brother, I wonder when this feeling started.
I do not remember when I told him that my paternal grandmother (Cecilia) had a Greek passport, which was not uncommon for Christian families in Syria, since most of them followed the Greek Orthodoxrite, and I now wonder if it played a role in the divorce of my grandparents, after my grandfather (Elias) switched to a more evangelical faith, and became a little excessive about religion: my father (Georges) once mentioned that when he had some argument with his father and he wanted to annoy him, he went to the Sunday offce at the Greek Orthodox1 church .
Becoming friend with Constantine was natural for human reasons, but also for scientific