Approximation of Helfrich's Functional via Diffuse Interfaces

DOI10.1137/09077549XzbMath1230.49006arXiv0910.5645MaRDI QIDQ5198418

Luca Mugnai, Giovanni Bellettini

Publication date: 8 August 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5645

zbMATH Keywords

singular perturbationscalculus of variations\(\Gamma\)-convergencegeometric measure theoryvariational problems in a geometric measure theoretic setting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Singular perturbations of functional-differential equations (34K26)

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