Anisotropic thermo-elasticity in 2D -- Part II: Applications

In this note we present concrete applications of the general treatment of anisotropic thermo-elasticity developed in Part I.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure

What is abductive inference?

Abductive reasoning: constitutes according to Peirce the "first stage" of scientific inquiries (CP 6.469) and of any interpretive processes. "Abduction" is the process of adopting an explanatory hypothesis (CP 5.145) and covers two operations: the selection and the formation of plausible hypotheses. As process of finding premisses, it is the basis of interpretive reconstruction of causes and intentions, as well as of inventive construction of theories

Energy inequalities and dispersive estimates for wave equations with time-dependent coefficients

We consider wave models with lower order terms and recollect some recent results on energy and dispersive estimates for their solution based on symbolic type estimates for coefficients and partly stabilisation conditions. The exposition is complemented by a collection of open problems.Comment: 11 page