Multi-peak solutions to two types of free boundary problems (Q493174)

In this paper, the following free boundary problem arising in confined plasma and steady vortex pair \[ \begin{cases} -\varepsilon^2 \Delta u = K(x)f(u-1), \;u>0, & x \in \Omega, \\ u = 0, & x \in \partial \Omega\end{cases} \] is considered, where \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb R^N}\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega\), \(N\geq 3\), \(\varepsilon>0\) is a small parameter, \(f(t)\) is continuous in \(t\), \(f(t)=0\) for \(t \leq 0\), and \(K(x)\) is a positive function in \(\overline{\Omega}\). The boundary of the core \(\{u_\varepsilon>1\}\) is the free boundary in this problem. The existence results of multi-peak solutions are established. The problem \[ \begin{cases} -\varepsilon^2 \Delta u 2 = f(u-k(x)), \;u>0, & x \in \Omega, \\ u = 0, & x \in \partial \Omega\end{cases} \] is also considered.