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The evolution problem for a membrane based model of an electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) is studied. The model describes the dynamics of the membrane displacement and the electric potential. The latter is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Joachim Escher , Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

A moving boundary problem with two free boundaries modeling a two-dimensional idealized MEMS device with pull-in instability is discussed. We use a fixed point argument to show that the model possesses stationary solutions for small source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Martin Kohlmann

In this paper, we reformulate a mathematical model for the dynamics of an idealized electrostatically actuated MEMS device with two elastic membranes as an initial value problem for an abstract quasilinear evolution equation. Applying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Martin Kohlmann

The dynamics of a free boundary problem for electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is investigated. The model couples the electric potential to the deformation of the membrane, the deflection of the membrane being…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Joachim Escher , Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

Well-posedness of a free boundary problem for electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is investigated when nonlinear bending effects are taken into account. The model describes the evolution of the deflection of an electrically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

The dynamical and stationary behaviors of a fourth-order evolution equation with clamped boundary conditions and a singular nonlocal reaction term, which is coupled to an elliptic free boundary problem on a non-smooth domain, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

A free boundary problem describing small deformations in a membrane based model of electrostatically actuated MEMS is investigated. The existence of stationary solutions is established for small voltage values. A justification of the widely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

We consider the dynamics of an electrostatically actuated thin elastic plate being clamped at its boundary above a rigid plate. The model includes the harmonic electrostatic potential in the three-dimensional time-varying region between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

A parabolic free boundary problem modeling a three-dimensional electrostatic MEMS device is investigated. The device is made of a rigid ground plate and an elastic top plate which is hinged at its boundary, the plates being held at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Katerina Nik

A variational approach is employed to find stationary solutions to a free boundary problem modeling an idealized electrostatically actuated MEMS device made of an elastic plate coated with a thin dielectric film and suspended above a rigid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

The objective of our paper is to investigate fractional elliptic equations of the form $(-\Delta)^s u=\frac{\lambda }{(a-u)^2}$ within a bounded domain $\Omega$, subject to zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, $s\in(0,1)$, $\lambda>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Huyuan Chen , Jialei Jiang , Jun Wang

An idealized electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) involving an elastic plate with a heterogeneous dielectric material is considered. Starting from the electrostatic and mechanical energies, the governing evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

We consider a two-phase elliptic-parabolic moving boundary problem modelling an evaporation front in a porous medium. Our main result is a proof of short-time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the corresponding nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Friedrich Lippoth , Georg Prokert

We study the local well-posedness of the solution to a coupled nonlinear elliptic-parabolic system which models electrical discharge in a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS). A simple MEMS capacitor device contains two plates acting as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Heiko Gimperlein , Runan He , Andrew A. Lacey

We analyze the nonlinear elliptic problem $\Delta u=\frac{\lambda f(x)}{(1+u)^2}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This equation models a simple electrostatic Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nassif Ghoussoub , Yujin Guo

A stationary free boundary problem modeling a three-dimensional electrostatic MEMS device is investigated. The device is made of a rigid ground plate and an elastic top plate which is hinged at its boundary, the plates being held at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Katerina Nik

We consider a free boundary problem modeling electrostatic microelectromechanical systems. The model consists of a fourth-order damped wave equation for the elastic plate displacement which is coupled to an elliptic equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

We study the two-phase Muskat--Verigin free-boundary problem for elliptic equations with nonlinear sources. The existence of a smooth solution and a smooth free boundary is proved locally in time by applying the parabolic regularization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Sergey P. Degtyarev

We consider an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Dennis Kriventsov , María Soria-Carro

In this paper we study the local wellposedness of the solution to a non-linear parabolic-dispersive coupled system which models a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS). A simple electrostatically actuated MEMS capacitor device has two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Heiko Gimperlein , Runan He , Andrew A. Lacey
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