On the isothermal geometry of corrugated graphene sheets
Abstract
Variational geometries describing corrugated graphene sheets are proposed. The isothermal thermomechanical properties of these sheets are described by a 2-dimensional Weyl space. The equation that couples the Weyl geometry with isothermal distributions of the temperature of graphene sheets, is formulated. This material space is observed in a 3-dimensional orthogonal configurational point space as regular surfaces which are endowed with a thermal state vector field fulfilling the isothermal thermal state equation. It enables to introduce a non-topological dimensionless thermal shape parameter of non-developable graphene sheets. The properties of the congruence of lines generated by the thermal state vector field are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1312.4711,
title = {On the isothermal geometry of corrugated graphene sheets},
author = {Andrzej Trzesowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4711},
year = {2014}
}
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42 pages. Keywords: variational geometry, Weyl space, regular surface, orthogonal space,material space, configurational space, Gauss curvature, mean curvature, isometric embedding, distortion, graphene, graphene sheet, corrugations, curvature effect, shape effect, isothermal conditions, temperature, thermal state vector, non-topological shape parameter, internal time