Download or read book Topics on Concentration Phenomena and Problems with Multiple Scales written by Andrea Braides and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of variational problems showing multi-scale behaviour with oscillation or concentration phenomena is a challenging topic of very active research. This volume collects lecture notes on the asymptotic analysis of such problems when multi-scale behaviour derives from scale separation in the passage from atomistic systems to continuous functionals, from competition between bulk and surface energies, from various types of homogenization processes, and on concentration effects in Ginzburg-Landau energies and in subcritical growth problems.