Tensor Random Fields

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Abstract

Mechanics and physics of random media strongly suggest that stochastic PDEs and stochastic finite element methods require mesoscale tensor-valued random fields (TRFs) of constitutive laws with locally anisotropic fluctuations. Such models are also useful when there is interest in fields of dependent quantities (velocity, strain, stress...) that need to be constrained by the balance laws (of mass, momentum...); examples are irrotational and solenoidal TRFs. In this article, we review the canonical forms of general correlation structures of second-order, mean-square continuous, wide-sense homogeneous and isotropic TRFs of ranks 1, ... , 4 in 3d. Besides “conventional” covariances, this approach can be used to construct TRFs with fractal and Hurst (long-range memory) characteristics. The current research extends the earlier work on scalar-valued RFs (including random processes) in vibration problems, rods and beams with random properties under random loadings, as well as elastodynamics, wavefronts, fracture, homogenization of random media, and contact mechanics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationContinuum Models and Discrete Systems - CMDS-14
EditorsFrançois Willot, Dominique Jeulin, François Willot, Justin Dirrenberger, Samuel Forest, Andrej V. Cherkaev
PublisherSpringer
Pages15-27
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031586644
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event14th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, CMDS 2023 - Paris, France
Duration: Jun 26 2023Jun 30 2023

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics
Volume457
ISSN (Print)2194-1009
ISSN (Electronic)2194-1017

Conference

Conference14th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems, CMDS 2023
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period6/26/236/30/23

Keywords

  • Correlation structure
  • Hurst exponent
  • Random fields, fractals
  • Stochastic mechanics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics

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