Symmetry breaking for a problem in optimal insulation

arXiv1601.02146MaRDI QIDQ6269112FDOQ6269112

Authors: Dorin Bucur, Giuseppe Buttazzo, Carlo Nitsch 

Publication date: 9 January 2016

Abstract: We consider the problem of optimally insulating a given domain $Omega$ of ${mathbbR}^d$; this amounts to solve a nonlinear variational problem, where the optimal thickness of the insulator is obtained as the boundary trace of the solution. We deal with two different criteria of optimization: the first one consists in the minimization of the total energy of the system, while the second one involves the first eigenvalue of the related differential operator. Surprisingly, the second optimization problem presents a symmetry breaking in the sense that for a ball the optimal thickness is nonsymmetric when the total amount of insulator is small enough. In the last section we discuss the shape optimization problem which is obtained letting $Omega$ to vary too.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

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