Applied Analysis Research groups

Current research is concerned with the analytical study of physically motivated systems of partial differential equations. So far it has concentrated on several major directions:

• The Q-tensor theory describing liquid crystals
• The Smoluchowski-Doi models describing complex non-Newtonian fluids
• Aspects of classical Newtonian fluids
• The nonlinear Schroedinger equations with potential, used in various applications, in particular in nonlinear optics.