Motion of discrete interfaces in periodic media

DOI10.4171/IFB/310MaRDI QIDQ2448610zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrea Braides, Giovanni Scilla

Publication date 2 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7117

zbMATH Keywords

crystalline curvaturediscrete systemsgeometric motionminimizing movementsmotion by curvatureperiodic media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Homogenization and oscillations in dynamical problems of solid mechanics (74Q10)

Abstract: We study the motion of discrete interfaces driven by ferromagnetic interactions in a two-dimensional periodic environment by coupling the minimizing movements approach by Almgren, Taylor and Wang and a discrete-to-continuous analysis. The case of a homogeneous environment has been recently treated by Braides, Gelli and Novaga, showing that the effective continuous motion is a flat motion related to the crystalline perimeter obtained by $Gamma$-convergence from the ferromagnetic energies, with an additional discontinuous dependence on the curvature, giving in particular a pinning threshold. In this paper we give an example showing that in general the motion does not depend only on the $Gamma$-limit, but also on geometrical features that are not detected in the static description. In particular we show how the pinning threshold is influenced by the microstructure and that the effective motion is described by a new homogenized velocity.

Review text

Summary: We study the motion of discrete interfaces driven by ferromagnetic interactions in a two-dimensional periodic environment by coupling the minimizing movements approach by Almgren, Taylor and Wang and a discrete-to-continuous analysis. The case of a homogeneous environment has been recently treated by \textit{A. Braides} et al. [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 195, No. 2, 469--498 (2010; Zbl 1186.82054)], showing that the effective continuous motion is a flat motion related to the crystalline perimeter obtained by \(\Gamma\)-convergence from the ferromagnetic energies, with an additional discontinuous dependence on the curvature, giving in particular a pinning threshold. In this paper we give an example showing that in general the motion does not depend only on the \(\Gamma\)-limit, but also on geometrical features that are not detected in the static description. In particular we show how the pinning threshold is influenced by the microstructure and that the effective motion is described by a new homogenized velocity.

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