Interface instability under forced displacements (Q2491966)

In a large variety of systems the power dissipated to force a motion with speed \(V \) is given by the ratio \( V^2/\mu\), \(\mu \) a mobility coefficient. The authors show the limits of validity of this law in a model for interfaces. They study a one dimensional model where the interface is the stationary solution of a non local evoluation equation. A penalty functional to orbits which deviate from solutions of the evoluation equation is assigned. The authors show that the minimal penalty has the expression \(V^2/\mu \) only when \( V\) is small enough.