Uniqueness and existence of spirals moving by forced mean curvature motion

DOI10.4171/IFB/285MaRDI QIDQ1932140zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nicolas Forcadel, C. Imbert, Régis Monneau

Publication date 17 January 2013

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0326

zbMATH Keywords

compatibility conditiondislocation dynamicsmotion of interfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the motion of spirals by mean curvature type motion in the (two dimensional) plane. Our motivation comes from dislocation dynamics; in this context, spirals appear when a screw dislocation line reaches the surface of a crystal. The first main result of this paper is a comparison principle for the corresponding parabolic quasi-linear equation. As far as motion of spirals are concerned, the novelty and originality of our setting and results come from the fact that, first, the singularity generated by the attached end point of spirals is taken into account for the first time, and second, spirals are studied in the whole space. Our second main result states that the Cauchy problem is well-posed in the class of sub-linear weak (viscosity) solutions. We also explain how to get the existence of smooth solutions when initial data satisfy an additional compatibility condition.

Review text

The authors study the motion of spirals by mean curvature type motion in the 2-dimensional plane. The motivation comes from dislocation dynamics. They prove a comparison principle for the corresponding parabolic quasilinear equation. Singularity generated by the attached end point of spirals is studied for the first time in this paper. Well-posedness of the corresponding Cauchy problem in the class of sub-linear weak (viscosity) solutions is obtained. When the initial data satisfies an additional compatibility condition, an expanation on how to get the existence of smooth solutions is also given.

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