Publications of Marta Lewicka

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Papers on Elasticity and Calculus of Variations

M. Lewicka and S. Muller
A note on the optimal constants in Korn's and geometric rigidity estimates in bounded and unbounded domains , preprint (PDF)

M. Lewicka and H. Li
Convergence of equilibria for incompressible elastic plates in the von Karman regime , submitted (PDF)

M. Lewicka, L. Mahadevan and M. Pakzad
Models for elastic shells with incompatible strains , submitted (PDF)

P. Hornung, M. Lewicka and R. Pakzad
Infinitesimal isometries on developable surfaces and asymptotic theories for thin developable shells , Journal of Elasticity, Volume 111, Number 1 (2013) (PDF)

M. Lewicka and S. Muller
The uniform Korn - Poincare inequality in thin domains , Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Non Linear Analysis Volume 28, Issue 3, May-June 2011, 443--469 (PDF)

M. Lewicka, L. Mahadevan and M. Pakzad
The Foppl-von Karman equations for plates with incompatible strains , Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467 (2011), 402--426 (PDF)

M. Lewicka, M.G. Mora and M. Pakzad
The matching property of infinitesimal isometries on elliptic surfaces and elasticity of thin shells , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. (3) Vol. 200 (2011), 1023--1050 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and M. Pakzad
Scaling laws for non-Euclidean plates and the W^{2,2} isometric immersions of Riemannian metrics , ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Vol. 17, no 4 (2011), 1158--1173 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
A note on the convergence of low energy critical points of nonlinear elasticity functionals, for thin shells of arbitrary geometry , ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 17 (2011) 493--505 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and M. Pakzad
The infinite hierarchy of elastic shell models: some recent results and a conjecture , accepted in Fields Institute Communications (2010) (PDF)

M. Lewicka, M.G. Mora and M. Pakzad
Shell theories arising as low energy \Gamma-limit of 3d nonlinear elasticity , Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) Vol. IX (2010), 1--43 (PDF)

M. Lewicka, M.G. Mora and M. Pakzad
A nonlinear theory for shells with slowly varying thickness , C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser I 347 (2009), 211--216 (PDF)

Review papers:

M. Lewicka
Reduced theories in nonlinear elasticity , accepted in "Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications" IMA Volume 153 in Mathematics and its Applications, Springer (2011) 393--404 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
Morphogenesis by growth and non-Euclidean elasticity: scaling laws and thin film models , Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, Vol. 60, 433–-445, Springer Basel AG (PDF)


Papers related to Fluid Dynamics

M. Lewicka and M. Raoofi
A stability result for the Stokes-Boussinesq equations in infinite 3d channels , accepted in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (PDF)

M. Lewicka and P.B. Mucha
On the existence of traveling waves in the 3D Boussinesq system , Commun. Math. Phys. 292 (2009), 417--429 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
Existence of traveling waves in the Stokes-Boussinesq system for reactive flow , J. Differential Equations, 237 (2007), no. 2, 343--371 (PDF)

P. Constantin, M. Lewicka and L. Ryzhik
A note on traveling waves in the 2D Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq system with the no-slip boundary condition , Nonlinearity, 19 (2006), 2605--2615 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and P.B. Mucha
On temporal asymptotics for the p'th power viscous reactive gas , Nonlinear Anal. 57 (2004), no. 7-8, 951--969 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and S.J. Watson
Temporal asymptotics for the p'th power newtonian fluid in one space dimension , Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 54 (2003), no. 4, 633--651. (PDF)


Papers on Conservation Laws

M. Lewicka and P.B. Mucha
A local existence result for a system of viscoelasticity with physical viscosity , accepted in AIMS: Evolution Equations and Control Theory (PDF)

B. Barker, M. Lewicka and K. Zumbrun
Existence and stability of viscoelastic shock profiles , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. Volume 200, Number 2, (2011) 491--532 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and K. Zumbrun
Spectral stability conditions for shock wave patterns , Journal of Hyperbolic Equations, 4 (2007), no. 1, 1--16. (PDF)

M. Lewicka
Stability conditions for strong rarefaction waves , SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36 (2005), no. 4, 1346--1369 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
Lyapunov functional for solutions of systems of conservation laws containing a strong rarefaction , SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36 (2005), no. 5, 1371--1399 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
The well posedness for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with large BV data , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 173 (2004), 415--445 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and K. Trivisa
On the L1 well posedness of systems of conservation laws near solutions containing two large shocks , J. Differential Equations, 179 (2002), 133--177 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
Stability conditions for patterns of non-interacting large shock waves , SIAM J. Math. Anal., 32 no. 5 (2001), 1094--1116 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
L1 stability of patterns of non-interacting large shock waves , Indiana Univ. Math. J., 49 (2000), 1515--1537 (PDF)

A. Bressan and M. Lewicka
A uniqueness condition for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws , Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 6 no. 3 (2000), 673--682 (PDF)

M. Lewicka
On the well posedness of a system of balance laws with L\infty data , Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova, 102 (1999), 319--340 (PDF)

A. Bressan and M. Lewicka
Shift differentials of maps in BV Spaces , in: 'Nonlinear Theory of Generalized Functions -- Proceedings of the Workshop Nonlinear Theory of Nonlinear Functions, Vienna 1997', Chapman&Hall (PDF)

Review paper:

M. Lewicka
On the L1 stability of multi-shock solutions to the Riemann problem , International Series of Numerical Mathematics, 141 (2001), 653--662 (PDF)


Papers on second order ODEs on manifolds

M. Lewicka and M. Spadini
Branches of forced oscillations in degenerate systems of second order ODEs , Nonlinear Analysis 68 (2008), 2623--2628 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and M. Spadini
A remark on the genericity of multiplicity results for forced oscillations on manifolds , Annali di Mat. Pura ed Applicata, 181 (2002), 85--94 (PDF)

M. Lewicka and M. Spadini
On the genericity of the multiplicity results for forced oscillations on compact manifolds , Nonlinear Diff. Equ. Appl., 6 (1999), 357--369. (PDF)


Other papers

M. Lewicka
Locally lipschitzian guiding function method for ODEs , Nonlinear Analysis 33 (1998), 747 - 758. (PDF)

J. Andres, L. Gorniewicz and M. Lewicka
Partially dissipative periodic processes , Banach Center Publications, Warszawa 1996.