The Euler-Helfrich functional

DOI10.1007/S00526-022-02188-6zbMATH Open1490.49030arXiv2107.12500OpenAlexW3184060579WikidataQ114017980 ScholiaQ114017980MaRDI QIDQ2117983FDOQ2117983

Bennett Palmer, Álvaro Pámpano

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate equilibrium configurations for surface energies which contain the squared $L^2$ norm of the difference of the mean curvature H and the spontaneous curvature $c_o$ coupled with the elastic energy of the boundary curve, which we studied previously in [23]. It is shown that if a critical surface for this type of functional is axially symmetric, then it satisfies a simpler second order variational problem. Many examples of solutions of this are given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12500

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zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsminimal surfacesEuler-Hilfreich energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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