English
Related papers

Related papers: Gradient estimates for the conductivity problem wi…

200 papers

This work reformulates the complete electrode model of electrical impedance tomography in order to enable more efficient numerical solution. The model traditionally assumes constant contact conductances on all electrodes, which leads to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen

We study a class of second-order elliptic equations of divergence form, with discontinuous coefficients and data, which models the conductivity problem in composite materials. We establish optimal gradient estimates by showing the explicit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Hongjie Dong , Haigang Li

In composite material, the stress may be arbitrarily large in the narrow region between two close-to-touching hard inclusions. The stress is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system of linear elasticity. The aim of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Haigang Li

We consider the inverse problem of recovering an isotropic electrical conductivity from interior knowledge of the magnitude of one current density field generated by applying current on a set of electrodes. The required interior data can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Adrian Nachman , Alexandru Tamasan , Johann Veras

In this paper, we derive the pointwise upper bounds and lower bounds on the gradients of solutions to the Lam\'{e} systems with partially infinite coefficients as the surface of discontinuity of the coefficients of the system is located…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jiguang Bao , Hongjie Ju , Haigang Li

A simple finite element formulation of the outlet gradient boundary condition is presented in the general context of convective-diffusive transport processes. Basically, the method is based on an upstream evaluation of the dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-15 Fabien Cornaton , Pierre Perrochet , Hans-Jörg Diersch

A high-contrast two-phase nonlinear composite material with adjacent inclusions of $m$-convex shapes is considered for $m>2$. The mathematical formulation consists of the insulated conductivity problem with $p$-Laplace operator in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Qionglei Chen , Zhiwen Zhao

We investigate the influence of the thermal properties of the boundaries in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection on analytical upper bounds on convective heat transport. We model imperfectly conducting bounding plates in two ways: using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-17 Ralf W. Wittenberg

We consider the scaling limit of a generic ferromagnetic system with a continuous phase transition, on the half plane with boundary conditions leading to the equilibrium of two different phases below criticality. We use general properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-09 Gesualdo Delfino , Alessio Squarcini

In this paper, we are concerned with the gradient estimate of the electric field due to two nearly touching dielectric inclusions, which is a central topic in the theory of composite materials. We derive accurate quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Youjun Deng , Xiaoping Fang , Hongyu Liu

In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks the optimal distribution of a fixed amount $m>0$ of insulating material coating an insulated boundary $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$ of a thermally conducting body…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Harbir Antil , Alex Kaltenbach , Keegan L. A. Kirk

In magnetized plasma, the magnetic field confines the particles around the field lines. The anisotropy intensity in the viscosity and heat conduction may reach the order of $10^{12}$. When the boundary conditions are periodic or Neumann,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Min Tang , Yihong Wang

In this paper, the insulated conductivity model with two touching or close-to-touching inclusions is considered in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with $d\geq3$. We establish the pointwise upper bounds on the gradient of the solution for the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Zhiwen Zhao

In this work we establish a gradient bound and Liouville-type theorems for solutions to Quasi-linear elliptic equations on compact Riemannian Manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Also, we provide a local splitting theorem when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Dimitrios Gazoulis , George Zacharopoulos

A long-standing area of materials science research has been the study of electrostatic, magnetic, and elastic fields in composite with densely packed inclusions whose material properties differ from that of the background. For a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Haigang Li , Longjuan Xu

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have garnered significant attention for approximating solutions to partial differential equations on complex geometries. These methods implicitly represent the geometry by replacing the sharp boundary interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Toai Luong , Tadele Mengesha , Steven M. Wise , Ming Hei Wong

Imposing either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the boundary of a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$, we study the perturbation incurred by the voltage potential when the conductivity is modified in a set of small measure. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Yves Capdeboscq , Shaun Chen Yang Ong

We study the asymptotic diffusion processes with (generally nonlocal) open boundaries in one dimension which are exactly solvable by means of the recently developed recursion formula. We investigate the stationary states, which cannot be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira FUJII

We consider the problem of optimal partition of a domain with respect to the sum of the principal eigenvalues and we prove for the first time regularity results for the free interface up to fixed boundary. All our results are quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Roberto Ognibene , Bozhidar Velichkov

The possible mismatch between the theoretical and experimental absorption of the edge peaks in semiconductors in a magnetic field background may arise due to the approximation scheme used to analytically calculate the absorption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Pulak Ranjan Giri , S. K. Chakrabarti