Energy minimizers of a thin film equation with Born repulsion force

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2011.10.803MaRDI QIDQ652001zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Huiqiang Jiang

Publication date 19 December 2011

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/cpaa.2011.10.803

zbMATH Keywords

energy minimizersingular elliptic equationthin film

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Singular elliptic equations (35J75) Thin fluid films (76A20)

Review text

Let \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^m\) be a bounded domain with smooth boundary and assume that \(\alpha >1\), \(\beta >0\), and \(\varepsilon >0\). This paper is concerned with the study of the nonlinear equation \[ -\Delta u=p-u^{-\alpha}\left(1-\left(\frac\varepsilon u\right)^\beta\right)\qquad\text{in \(\Omega\)}, \] subject to the Neumann boundary condition \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}=0\qquad\text{on \(\partial\Omega\)}, \] where \(p=u^{-\alpha}-\varepsilon^\beta u^{-\alpha-\beta}-\Delta u\). The first main result in this paper concerns the existence of global energy minimizers. Next, the author proves that if \(u\) is a local energy minimizer satisfying \[ \int_\Omega u^{-\alpha -\beta}<\infty, \] then \(u\) is a classical solution with positive lower bound. The asymptotic behaviour of global energy minimizers as \(\varepsilon\rightarrow 0\) is also studied in the present paper. The proofs combine energy estimates, truncation techniques, and lower semi-continuity arguments.

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