Nearly parallel vortex filaments in the 3D Ginzburg-Landau equations

DOI10.1007/S00039-017-0425-8MaRDI QIDQ1682507zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andres Contreras, Robert L. Jerrard

Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00732

zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problemMEMStransmission problemvanishing aspect ratiovariational inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unilateral problems for nonlinear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear elliptic operators (35J87) Initial-boundary value problems for mixed-type systems of PDEs (35M33) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Plates (74K20)

Abstract: We introduce a framework to study the occurrence of vortex filament concentration in $3D$ Ginzburg-Landau theory. We derive a functional that describes the free-energy of a collection of nearly-parallel quantized vortex filaments in a cylindrical $3$-dimensional domain, in certain scaling limits; it is shown to arise as the $Gamma$-limit of a sequence of scaled Ginzburg-Landau functionals. Our main result establishes for the first time a long believed connection between the Ginzburg-Landau functional and the energy of nearly parallel filaments that applies to many mathematically and physically relevant situations where clustering of filaments is expected. In this setting it also constitutes a higher-order asymptotic expansion of the Ginzburg-Landau energy, a refinement over the arclength functional approximation. Our description of the vorticity region significantly improves on previous studies and enables us to rigorously distinguish a collection of multiplicity one vortex filaments from an ensemble of fewer higher multiplicity ones. As an application, we prove the existence of solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation that exhibit clusters of vortex filaments whose small-scale structure is governed by the limiting free-energy functional.

Review text

The main aim of this paper is the construction of some models for a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device by taking into account the thickness of the elastic plate and its dielectric properties. The authors compute the electrostatic force exerted on the elastic plate as the first variation of the electrostatic energy. This is different from the procedure used in the derivation of related models in the existing literature. The resulting force differs from those of others papers in that it involves additional terms accounting for the jump of the permittivity across the device. It should be noted that the present models incorporate a constraint accounting for the fact that the elastic plate cannot penetrate the ground plate. Other feature of this constraint is that it prevents the breakdown of the models when pull-in occurs. In these models, the authors consider the case when the thickness of the elastic plate vanishes. If the dielectric permittivity is of order one with respect to the thickness, then the reduced model does not retain any effects of the dielectric. It is performed the classical vanishing aspect ratio limit when the vertical dimension is much smaller compared to the horizontal ones. So, it is obtained an explicit formula for the electrostatic force in terms of the deflection.

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