Curve shortening flow in heterogeneous media

DOI10.4171/IFB/269zbMATH Open1261.35079arXiv1003.3366MaRDI QIDQ766010FDOQ766010

M. Novaga, Annalisa Cesaroni, Enrico Valdinoci

Publication date: 22 March 2012

Published in: Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geometric evolution in heterogeneous media. Here we consider curvature driven fows of planar curves, with an additional space-dependent forcing term. Motivated by a homogenization problem, we look for estimates which depend only on the uniform norm of the forcing term. By means of an asymptotic analysis, we discuss the properties of the limit solutions of the homogenization problem, which we can rigorously solve in some special cases: that is, when the initial curve is a graph, and the forcing term does not depend on the vertical direction. As a by-product, in such cases we are able to define a soluton of the geometric evolution when the forcing term is just a bounded, not necessarily continuous, function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3366

zbMATH Keywords

planar curveexistence timerapidly oscillating forcing term

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

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