Stress concentration for nonlinear insulated conductivity problem with adjacent inclusions

arXiv2306.03519MaRDI QIDQ6439360FDOQ6439360

Authors: Qionglei Chen, Zhiwen Zhao 

Publication date: 6 June 2023

Abstract: A high-contrast two-phase nonlinear composite material with adjacent inclusions of $m$-convex shapes is considered for $m>2$. The mathematical formulation consists of the insulated conductivity problem with $p$-Laplace operator in $mathbb{R}^d$ for $p>1$ and $dgeq2$. The stress, which is the gradient of the solution, always blows up with respect to the distance $varepsilon$ between two inclusions as $varepsilon$ goes to zero. We first establish the pointwise upper bound on the gradient possessing the singularity of order $$ with $$ for some $alphageq0$, where $alpha=0$ if $d=2$ and $alpha>0$ if $dgeq3$. In particular, we give a quantitative description for the range of horizontal length of the narrow channel in the process of establishing the gradient estimates, which provides a clear understanding for the applied techniques and methods. For $dgeq2$, we further construct a supersolution to sharpen the upper bound with any $$ when $p>d+m-1$. Finally, a subsolution is also constructed to show the almost optimality of the blow-up rate $varepsilo{n}^{-1/maxp-1,m}$ in the presence of curvilinear squares. This fact reveals a novel dichotomy phenomena that the singularity of the gradient is uniquely determined by one of the convexity parameter $m$ and the nonlinear exponent $p$ except for the critical case of $p=m+1$ in two dimensions.

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