Overdamped dynamics of a falling inextensible network: existence of solutions (Q6082519)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7761249
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Overdamped dynamics of a falling inextensible network: existence of solutions (English)
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6 November 2023
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Summary: We study the equations of overdamped motion of an inextensible triod with three fixed ends and a free junction under the action of gravity. The problem can be expressed as a system of PDEs that involves unknown Lagrange multipliers and non-standard boundary conditions related to the freely moving junction. It can also be formally interpreted as a gradient flow of the potential energy on a certain submanifold of the Otto-Wasserstein space of probability measures. We prove global existence of generalized solutions to this problem.
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gradient flow
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triod
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inextensible string
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unknown Lagrange multiplier
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