Pinning of interfaces in a random medium with zero mean
Analysis of PDEs
2020-02-04 v1
Abstract
We consider a discrete and a continuum model for the propagation of a curvature sensitive interface in a time independent random medium. In both cases we suppose that the medium contains obstacles that act on the propagation of the interface with an inhibitory or an acceleratory force. We show that the interface remains bounded for all times even when a small constant external driving force is applied. This phenomenon has already been known when only inhibitory obstacles are present. In this work we extend this result to the case of, for example, a random medium of random zero mean forcing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.00800,
title = {Pinning of interfaces in a random medium with zero mean},
author = {Patrick Dondl and Martin Jesenko and Michael Scheutzow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00800},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
18 pages, 10 figures