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Minimizing the so-called "Dirichlet energy" with respect to the domain under a volume constraint is a standard problem in shape optimization which is now well understood. This article is devoted to a prototypal non-linear version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Antoine Henrot , Idriss Mazari , Yannick Privat

We study for the first time a two-phase free boundary problem in which the solution satisfies a Robin boundary condition. We consider the case in which the solution is continuous across the free boundary and we prove an existence and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Serena Guarino Lo Bianco , Domenico Angelo La Manna , Bozhidar Velichkov

We consider the vectorial analogue of the thin free boundary problem introduced in \cite{CRS} as a realization of a nonlocal version of the classical Bernoulli problem. We study optimal regularity, nondegeneracy, and density properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Daniela De Silva , Giorgio Tortone

A variational model for describing the morphology of two-phase continua by allowing for the interplay between coherent and incoherent interfaces is introduced. Coherent interfaces are characterized by the microscopical arrangement of atoms…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Randy Llerena , Paolo Piovano

We start the investigation of free boundary variational models featuring varying singularities. The theory depends strongly on the nature of the singular power $\gamma(x)$ and how it changes. Under a mild continuity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Damião Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

In this paper, we study superlinear systems that give rise to free boundaries. Such systems appear for example from the minimization of the energy functional $$ \int_{\Omega}\left(|\nabla\mathbf{u}|^2+\frac2p|\mathbf{u}|^p\right),\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daniela De Silva , Seongmin Jeon , Henrik Shahgholian

We study the regularity of minimizers to the composite membrane problem in the plane (ie given a domain omega and a positive number A, smaller than the measure of omega, minimize the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Schrodinger operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Sagun Chanillo , Carlos E. Kenig , Tung TO

We study critical points of a one-parameter family of functionals arising in combustion models. The problems we consider converge, for infinitesimal values of the parameter, to Bernoulli's free boundary problem, also known as one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Alessandro Audrito , Joaquim Serra

In this paper, we develop a series of boundary pointwise regularity for Dirichlet problems and oblique derivative problems. As applications, we give direct and simple proofs of the higher regularity of the free boundaries in obstacle-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

In this paper we prove an existence and uniqueness result for the double phase Dirichlet problem when the lowest exponent is equal to 1. Our solution is a function of bounded variation that simultaneously lies in a suitable weighted Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Alexandros Matsoukas , Nikos Yannakakis

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

We establish an epsilon-regularity theorem at points in the free boundary of almost-minimizers of the energy $\mathrm{Per}_{w}(E)=\int_{\partial^*E}w\,\mathrm{d} {\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}$, where $w$ is a weight asymptotic to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Carlo Gasparetto , Filippo Paiano , Bozhidar Velichkov

We apply new results on free boundary regularity of one-phase almost minimizers in periodic media to obtain a quantitative convergence rate for the shape optimizers of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue in periodic homogenization. We obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 William M Feldman

In this article, we study a class of fully nonlinear double-divergence systems with free boundaries associated with a minimization problem. The variational structure of Hessian-dependent functional plays a fundamental role in proving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Julio C. Correa

We study geometric and regularity properties of the largest subsolution of a one-phase free boundary problem under a very general free boundary condition in R2. Moreover, we provide density bounds for the positivity set and its complement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Betul Orcan

In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal domain which minimizes the buckling load of a clamped plate among all bounded domains with given measure. Instead of treating this variational problem with a volume constraint, we introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Kathrin Stollenwerk

Motivated by the construction of time-periodic solutions for the three-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the case of soft and small ferromagnetic particles, we investigate the regularity properties of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Alexander Huber

We consider a hyperbolic free boundary problem by means of minimizing time discretized functionals of Crank-Nicolson type. The feature of this functional is that it enjoys energy conservation in the absence of free boundaries, which is an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yoshiho Akagawa , Elliott Ginder , Syota Koide , Seiro Omata , Karel Svadlenka

We perform a replacement procedure in order to produce a free boundary minimal surface whose area achieves the min-max value over all disk sweepouts of a manifold whose boundary lie in a submanifold. Our result is based on a proof of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Paul Laurain , Romain Petrides

In this paper, we investigate Bernoulli type free boundary problem on collapsed RCD(K,N)-spaces. We prove the existence of minimizers and prove the local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers provided that the negative part is locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Sitan Lin