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Last Updated: 23 dec 2011

Journal: Math. Z.
Volume: 266
Number: 3
Pages: 533-560
Year: 2010
Links: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v437h222078x1276/

Abstract:

We study the $\Gamma$-convergence of the following functional ($p>2$) $$ F_{{\varepsilon}}(u):=\varepsilon^{p-2}\!\int_{{\Omega}\!
Du}
^p d(x,\partial \Omega)^{{a}dx+\frac{1}{\varepsilon{\frac{p}-2}{p-1}}}\!\int_{\Omega}\!W(u) d(x,\partial \Omega)^{-\frac{a}{p-1}}dx+\frac{1}{\sqrt{\varepsilon}}\!\int_{{\partial\Omega}\!V}(Tu)d\mathcal{H}^2, $$ where $\Omega$ is an open bounded set of $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $W$ and $V$ are two non-negative continuous functions vanishing at $\alpha, \beta$ and $\alpha', \beta'$, respectively. In the previous functional, we fix $a=2-p$ and $u$ is a scalar density function, $Tu$ denotes its trace on $\partial\Omega$, $d(x,\partial \Omega)$ stands for the distance function to the boundary $\partial\Omega$. We show that the singular limit of the energies $F_{\varepsilon}$ leads to a coupled problem of bulk and surface phase transitions.

Keywords: phase transitions, G-convergence, Line tension, Nonlocal variational problems, weighted Sobolev spaces

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