On the boundary regularity of phase-fields for Willmore's energy

DOI10.1017/PRM.2018.100MaRDI QIDQ5108920zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephan Wojtowytsch, Patrick W. Dondl

Publication date 6 May 2020

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02160

zbMATH Keywords

boundary regularityphase-fieldWillmore energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J67) Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

Abstract: We demonstrate that Radon measures which arise as the limit of the Modica-Mortola measures associated to phase-fields with uniformly bounded diffuse area and Willmore energy may be singular at the boundary of a domain and discuss implications for practical applications. We furthermore give partial regularity results for the phase-fields $u_{e}psilon$ at the boundary in terms of boundary conditions and counterexamples without boundary conditions.

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