Copolymer-homopolymer blends: global energy minimisation and global energy bounds

DOI10.1007/S00526-007-0147-0zbMath1191.49006arXiv0704.3222OpenAlexW2137696739WikidataQ59874027 ScholiaQ59874027MaRDI QIDQ948955

Yves van Gennip, Mark Adriaan Peletier

Publication date: 16 October 2008

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3222

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalOhta-Kawasaki energyexistence of minimisersstructure and energy of stationary pointsvariational model for a diblock copolymer-homopolymer blend

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

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