Gamma convergence of a family of surface-director bending energies with small tilt

DOI10.1007/S00205-015-0914-6MaRDI QIDQ5962879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Lussardi, Matthias Röger

Publication date 25 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02600

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

Abstract: We prove a Gamma-convergence result for a family of bending energies defined on smooth surfaces in $mathbb{R}^3$ equipped with a director field. The energies strongly penalize the deviation of the director from the surface unit normal and control the derivatives of the director. Such type of energies for example arise in a model for bilayer membranes introduced by Peletier and R"oger [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 193 (2009)]. Here we prove in three space dimensions in the vanishing-tilt limit a Gamma-liminf estimate with respect to a specific curvature energy. In order to obtain appropriate compactness and lower semi-continuity properties we use tools from geometric measure theory, in particular the concept of generalized Gauss graphs and curvature varifolds.

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