Related papers: The biharmonic optimal support problem
In this paper, we study the relaxed energy for biharmonic maps from a $m$-dimensional domain into spheres. By an approximation method, we prove the existence of a minimizer of the relaxed energy of the Hessian energy, and that the minimizer…
Inspired by R. Bartnik's mass minimization problem in general relativity, we investigate a dual problem of maximizing the capacity among asymptotically flat extensions (with nonnegative scalar curvature) of some fixed two-dimensional…
This work is devoted to the analysis of the interplay between internal variables and high-contrast microstructure in inelastic solids. As a concrete case-study, by means of variational techniques, we derive a macroscopic description for an…
We look for minimizers of the buckling load problem with perimeter constraint in any dimension. In dimension 2, we show that the minimizing plates are convex; in higher dimension, by passing through a weaker formulation of the problem, we…
Biharmonic wave equations are of importance to various applications including thin plate analyses. In this work, the numerical approximation of their solutions by a $C^1$-conforming in space and time finite element approach is proposed and…
Our concern is the computation of optimal shapes in problems involving $\(-\Delta)^{1/2}$. We focus on the energy $J(\Omega)$ associated to the solution $u\_\Omega$ of the basic Dirichlet problem $(-\Delta)^{1/2} u\_\Omega = 1$ in $\Omega$,…
In two spatial dimensions, we discuss the relation between the solvability of Schiffer's overdetermined problem and the optimality, among sets of prescribed area, of the first eigenvalue in the buckling problem for a clamped plate and that…
On a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold without boundary we consider the variational limit of a family of functionals given by the sum of two terms: a Ginzburg-Landau and a perimeter term. Our scaling allows low-energy states to be…
This paper proves a $\Gamma$-convergence result for the discrete energy (to the continuous one) of the matching problem for signals defined on surfaces. In particular, we highlight some geometric properties that must be guaranteed in the…
In this paper we consider a minimization problem of the type $$ I_{\beta,p}(D;\Omega)=\inf\biggl\{\int_\Omega \lvert{D\phi}\rvert^pdx+\beta \int_{\partial^* \Omega}\lvert{\phi}\rvert^pd\mathcal{H}^{n-1},\; \phi \in W^{1,p}(\Omega),\;\phi…
We consider a shape optimization problem for the persistence threshold of a biological species dispersing in a periodically fragmented environment, the unknown shape corresponding to the portion of the habitat which is favorable to the…
We study a higher order version of the Alt-Caffarelli problem in two dimensions, where the Dirichlet energy is replaced by an anisotropic bending energy. This extends a previous study of the isotropic case in [41]. It turns out that smooth…
Optimal pointwise estimates are derived for the biharmonic Green function under Dirichlet boundary conditions in arbitrary $C^{4,\gamma}$-smooth domains. Maximum principles do not exist for fourth order elliptic equations and the Green…
In this paper, we propose and analyze a finite element discretization for the computation of fractional minimal graphs of order~$s \in (0,1/2)$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$. Such a Plateau problem of order $s$ can be reinterpreted as a…
A discrete-to-continuum analysis for free-boundary problems related to crystalline films deposited on substrates is performed by $\Gamma$-convergence. The discrete model here introduced is characterized by an energy with two contributions,…
In this work, we study the effective behavior of a two-dimensional variational model within finite crystal plasticity for high-contrast bilayered composites. Precisely, we consider materials arranged into periodically alternating thin…
We prove a ${\Gamma}$-convergence result for the $p$-Dirichlet energy functional defined on maps from a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ to $\mathscr{N}$, a $(k-2)$-connected and smooth closed Riemannian manifold…
We investigate the dependence of optimal constants in Poincar\'e- Sobolev inequalities of planar domains on the region where the Dirichlet condition is imposed. More precisely, we look for the best Dirichlet regions, among closed and…
The aim of this article is twofold. First, in the large-body limit and when the temperature is below the nematic-isotropic transition threshold, we verify that the $\mathbb{S}^2$-valued energy-minimizing harmonic map on a bounded smooth…
We consider a variant of the sticky disk energy where distances between particles are evaluated through the sup norm $\lVert\cdot\rVert_\infty$ in the plane. We first prove crystallization of minimizers in the square lattice, for any fixed…