Project

Geometric mechanics

Acronym
GEOMECH
Code
41MC7810
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Analysis
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Geometry
    • Computer architecture and networks
    • Distributed computing
    • Information sciences
    • Information systems
    • Programming languages
    • Scientific computing
    • Theoretical computer science
    • Visual computing
    • Other information and computing sciences
    • Astronomy and space sciences
    • Classical physics
    • Materials physics
    • Mathematical physics
    • Quantum physics
Keywords
classical field theory differential geometry geometrical integration techniques classical mechanics geometrical control theory
 
Project description

This is a research project that is carried out within the framework of the IRSES programme “GEOMECH”, a Marie-Curie action belonging to the 7th Framework Programme of the EU. The project covers a broad research domain, centered around the following topics: (1) geometrical structures in mechanics and classical field theory, (2) non-holonomic mechanics and geometrical control theory, (3) geometry of second-order differential equations and the calculus of variations, (4) geometrical integration techniques.