Mathematical models and methods for smart materials : Cortona, Italy, 25-29 June 2001 / editors, Mauro Fabrizio, Barbara Lazzari, Angelo Morro.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents Preface Obituary Temperance for order/disorder transition in nematics / P. Biscari, G. Capriz Null Lagrangians and surface interaction potentials in nonlinear elasticity / S. Carillo Automatic control problems for integrodifferential parabolic equations / C. Cavaterra Asymptotic partition in the linear thermoelasticity backward in time / M. Ciarletta, S. Chirita Internal parameters and superconductive phase in metals / V. A. Cimmelli, A. R. Pace Phase relaxation problems with memory and their optimal control / P. Colli Some inverse problems related to the heat equation with memory in non-smooth spatial domains / F. Colombo On the minimal free energy and the Saint-Venant principle in linear viscoelasticity / L. Deseri, G. Gentili, J. M. Golden Gentili's norm on the process and state spaces in linear viscoelasticity / M. Fabrizio Unified dynamics of particles and photons / G. Ferrarese The problem of the rate of thermalization, and the relations between classical and quantum mechanics / L. Galgani, A. Carati, B. Pozzi Solid-solid phase transition in a mechanical system / G. Gilardi The minimum free energy of compressible viscoelastic fluids / J. M. Golden, G. Gentili, M. Fabrizio KAM methods for nonautonomous Schrodinger operators / S. Graffi Phase-field systems with memory effects in the order parameter dynamics / M. Grasselli, V. Pata Elliptic problems depending on a parameter in plane curvilinear polygons / D. Guidetti Fractional diffusion and wave equations / A. Hanyga Exponential decay on the mean in linear viscoelasticity / B. Lazzari Recovering a memory kernel in an integrodifferential Stefan problem / L. Lorenzi The fundamental solutions of the time-fractional diffusion equation / F. Mainardi, G. Pagnini Some results of pointwise stability for solutions to the Navier-Stokes system / P. Maremonti Asymptotic behavior for a model of transverse vibration of a bar with linear memory / A. Marzocchi, E. Vuk Balance equations in two-fluid models in helium II / A. Morro, M. Fabrizio Thermoelastic plate with thermal interior control / M. G. Naso, A. Benabdallah A non-stationary model in superconductivity / R. Nibbi, M. Fabrizio Counterexample to the exponential decay for systems with memory / S. Polidoro Convergence to the Stefan problem of the hyperbolic phase relaxation problem and error estimates / V. Recupero On a thermodynamical model for type-II high-T[subscript c] superconductors. Theory and applications / L. Restuccia, B. T. Maruszewski Decay of the energy to partially viscoelastic materials / J. E. M. Rivera, A. P. Salvatierra Some remarks on the conserved Penrose-Fife phase field model with memory effects / E. Rocca Local solution to Fremond's full model for irreversible phase transitions / G. Schimperna, F. Luterotti, U. Stefanelli A scalar model of viscoelasticity with singular memory / M. Seredynska, A. Hanyga An existence result for semilinear equations in viscoelasticity: The case of regular kernels / D. Sforza, P. Cannarsa Phase transitions and hysteresis in one-dimensional thermo-plasticity / U. Stefanelli Longterm dynamics of a conserved phase-field system with memory / F. M. Vegni