The behavior of the free boundary near the fixed boundary for a minimization problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-006-0029-XMaRDI QIDQ859768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. E. Kenig, A. L. Karakhanyan, Henrik Shahgholian

Publication date 18 January 2007

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-006-0029-x

contact points dam problem regularity of the free boundary

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

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The paper analyzes the behaviour of the free boundary arising from the minimization problem for the functional \[ \int_\Omega | \nabla u(x)| ^2 +q^2(x) \lambda^2(u) \] where \(q(x)\) is a given smooth function, \(q(x)\neq0\) \(\forall x,\) and \[ \lambda^2(u)=\begin{cases} \lambda^2_+ & \text{if}\;u>0,\cr \lambda^2_- & \text{if}\;u<0, \end{cases} \] with \(\lambda^2_+-\lambda^2_-\neq0,\) \(\lambda_+>0,\) \(\lambda_->0.\) Taking \(\Omega\) to be smooth domain and the admissible class of minimizers \(\{u\colon\;u-f\in W^{1,2}_0(\Omega)\}\) with smooth enough \(f,\) the main result of the paper asserts that \textit{at contact point between the fixed and the free boundary where \(f\) and \(\nabla f\) vanish simultaneously, the free boundary approaches the fixed one in a tangential fashion.} This complements the result due to \textit{A. Gurevich} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 52, No. 3, 363-403 (1999; Zbl 0928.35213)] which shows that if \(\nabla f=0\) whenever \(f=0,\) then \(f\in \text{Lip\,}(\overline\Omega).\)

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