No touchdown at points of small permittivity and nontrivial touchdown sets for the MEMS problem

zbMATH Open1444.35104arXiv1706.04375MaRDI QIDQ2178052FDOQ2178052

Authors: Carlos Esteve, Philippe Souplet 

Publication date: 7 May 2020

Published in: Advances in Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a well-known model for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with variable dielectric permittivity, involving a parabolic equation with singular nonlinearity. We study the touchdown, or quenching, phenomenon. Recently, the question whether or not touchdown can occur at zero points of the premittivity profile f, which had long remained open, was answered negatively for the case of interior points. The first aim of this article is to go further by considering the same question at points of positive but small permittivity. We show that, in any bounded domain, touchdown cannot occur at an interior point where the permittivity profile is suitably small. We also obtain a similar result in the boundary case, under a smallness assumption on f in a neighborhood of the boundary. This allows in particular to construct f producing touchdown sets concentrated near any given sphere. Our next aim is to obtain more information on the structure and properties of the touchdown set. In particular, we show that the touchdown set need not in general be localized near the maximum points of the premittivity profile f. In the radial case in a ball, we show the existence of M-shaped profiles for which the touchdown set is located far away from the maximum points of f and we even obtain strictly convex f for which touchdown occurs at the unique minimum point of f. These results show that some kind of smallness condition as above cannot be avoided in order to rule out touchdown at a point. On the other hand, we construct profiles f producing more complex behaviors: in any bounded domain the touchdown set may be concentrated near two arbitrarily given points, or two arbitrarily given (n-1)-dimensional spheres in a ball. These examples are obtained as a consequence of stability results for the touchdown time and touchdown set under small perturbations of the permittivity profile.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04375

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zbMATH Keywords

quenchingstability propertytouchdown timemicro-electromechanical devicepermissivitytouchdown pointtouchdown set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Singular parabolic equations (35K67) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Membranes (74K15)

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