An example in the gradient theory of phase transitions

DOI10.1051/COCV:2002012zbMath1037.49010OpenAlexW2137147459MaRDI QIDQ4420720

Camillo De Lellis

Publication date: 18 August 2003

Published in: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=COCV_2002__7__285_0

zbMATH Keywords

singular perturbationphase transitionsasymptotic analysis\(\Gamma\)-convergenceGinzburg-Landau energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)

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• The morphology and folding patterns of buckling-driven thin-film blisters
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• On lower semicontinuity of a defect energy obtained by a singular limit of the Ginzburg–Landau type energy for gradient fields
• Compactness in Ginzburg-Landau energy by kinetic averaging

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