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The electric field increases toward infinity in the narrow region between closely adjacent perfect conductors as they approach each other. Much attention has been devoted to the blow-up estimate, especially in two dimensions, for the…
In the perfect conductivity problem of composites, the electric field may become arbitrarily large as $\varepsilon$, the distance between the inclusions and the matrix boundary, tends to zero. The main contribution of this paper lies in…
Conductivity of the defectless, perfect crystal graphene is found at the neutrality point at zero temperature and in the limit of large dielectric constant of the substrate. The steady state of the graphene with weak current is assumed to…
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We study the quasi-neutral limit in an optimal semiconductor design problem constrained by a nonlinear, nonlocal Poisson equation modelling the drift diffusion equations in thermal equilibrium. While a broad knowledge on the asymptotic…
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In this paper, we will use the maximum principle to give a new proof of the gradient estimates for mean curvature equations with some oblique derivative problems. Specially, we shall give a new proof for the capillary problem with zero…
It is interesting to study the stress concentration between two adjacent stiff inclusions in composite materials, which can be modeled by the Lam\'e system with partially infinite coefficients. To overcome the difficulty from the lack of…