The two-dimensional liquid crystal droplet problem with a tangential boundary condition

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01733-5MaRDI QIDQ2113535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiyuan Geng, Fanghua Lin

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10668, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/1421

zbMATH Keywords

shape optimizationexistencefree boundary problemSobolev spacelarge volume asymptotic solutionOseen-Frank energy functionalWeil-Peterssen curve class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

Abstract: This paper studies a shape optimization problem which reduces to a nonlocal free boundary problem involving perimeter. It is motivated by a study of liquid crystal droplets with a tangential anchoring boundary condition and a volume constraint. We establish in 2D the existence of an optimal shape that has two cusps on the boundary. We also prove the boundary of the droplet is a chord-arc curve with its normal vector field in the VMO space. In fact, the boundary curves of such droplets belong to the so-called Weil-Petersson class. In addition, the asymptotic behavior of the optimal shape when the volume becomes extremely large or small is also studied.

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