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A quasistatic model for a horizontally loaded thin elastic composite at small strains is studied. The composite consists of two adjacent plates whose interface behaves in a cohesive fashion with respect to the slip of the two layers. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Filippo Riva

We prove existence of solution of a $p$-curl type evolutionary system arising in electromagnetism with a power nonlinearity of order $p$, $1<p<\infty$, assuming natural tangential boundary conditions. We consider also the asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-03 Fernando Miranda , José-Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

Elastic flow for closed curves can involve significant deformations. Mesh-based approximation schemes require tangentially redistributing vertices for long-time computations. We present and analyze a method that uses the Dirichlet energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

The available potential energy (APE) of a fluid can be defined locally in space, providing useful insights into both the energetics and dynamics of stratified flows ranging from three-dimensional turbulence to planetary scale circulations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Jacob O. Wenegrat , Tomas Chor , Roy Barkan

We study stationary points of the bending energy of curves $\gamma\colon[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to constraints on the arc-length and the curve's holonomy while simultaneously allowing for a variable bending stiffness along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Oliver Gross , Ulrich Pinkall , Moritz Wahl

We investigate a family of curve evolution equations approximating the motion of a Kirchhoff rod immersed in a low Reynolds number fluid. The rod is modeled as a framed curve whose energy consists of the bending energy of the curve and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Dallas Albritton , Laurel Ohm

We study the elastic flow of closed curves and of open curves with clamped boundary conditions in the hyperbolic plane. While global existence and convergence toward critical points for initial data with sufficiently small energy is already…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Manuel Schlierf

We consider the $H^{-m}$-gradient flow of length for closed plane curves. This flow is a generalization of curve diffusion flow. We investigate the large-time behavior assuming the global existence of the flow. Then we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Kohei Nakamura

We consider a Fokker-Planck equation which is coupled to an externally given time-dependent constraint on its first moment. This constraint introduces a Lagrange-multiplier which renders the equation nonlocal and nonlinear. In this paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Simon Eberle , Barbara Niethammer , André Schlichting

In this paper we consider an obstacle problem for a generalization of the p-elastic energy among graphical curves with fixed ends. Taking into account that the Euler--Lagrange equation has a degeneracy, we address the question whether…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Anna Dall'Acqua , Marius Müller , Shinya Okabe , Kensuke Yoshizawa

We prove the existence of weak solutions to a system of two diffusion equations that are coupled by a pointwise volume constraint. The time evolution is given by gradient dynamics for a free energy functional. Our primary example is a model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Clément Cancès , Daniel Matthes

In this article we study the anisotropic curve shortening flow for a planar network of three curves with fixed endpoints and which meet in a triple junction. We show that the anisotropic curvature energy fulfills a Lojasiewicz-Simon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Michael Gößwein , Matteo Novaga , Paola Pozzi

The elastic flow, which is the $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy, has several applications in geometry and elasticity theory. We present stable discretizations for the elastic flow in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

An abstract 2nd-order evolution equation or inclusion is discretised in time in such a way that the energy is conserved at least in qualified cases, typically in the cases when the governing energy is component-wise quadratic or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Tomas Roubicek , Christos G. Panagiotopoulos

In this study, inextensible flows of curves in four-dimensional pseudo-Galilean space are expressed, and the necessary and sufficient conditions of these curve flows are given as partial differential equations. Also, the directional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Fatma Almaz , Handan Oztekin

It was recently proved that the elastic energy $E(\gamma)=\tfrac{1}{2}\int_\gamma\kappa^2 ds$ of a closed curve $\gamma$ with curvature $\kappa$ has a minimizer among all plane, simple, regular and closed curves of given enclosed area…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Vincenzo Ferone , Bernd Kawohl , Carlo Nitsch

We investigate the equilibrium configurations of closed planar elastic curves of fixed length, whose stiffness, also known as the bending rigidity, depends on an additional density variable. The underlying variational model relies on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Katharina Brazda , Gaspard Jankowiak , Christian Schmeiser , Ulisse Stefanelli

We construct viscosity solutions to the nonlinear evolution equation \eqref{p} below which generalizes the motion of level sets by mean curvature (the latter corresponds to the case $p = 1$) using the regularization scheme as in \cite{ES1}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Agnid Banerjee , Nicola Garofalo

We consider a parabolic obstacle problem for Euler's elastic energy of graphs with fixed ends. We show global existence, well-posedness and subconvergence provided that the obstacle and the initial datum are suitably 'small'. For symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Marius Müller

A new form of the Wilson renormalization group equation is derived, in which the flow equations are, up to linear terms, proportional to a gradient flow. A set of co\"ordinates is found in which the flow of marginal, low-energy, couplings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Myers , Vipul Periwal