Herbert Koch and Junfeng Li Global well-posedness and scattering for small data for the three-dimensional Kadomtsev--Petviashvili II equation Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 42(6): 950--976 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2017.1320410
Nora Lüthen, Martin Rumpf, Sascha Tölkes and Orestis Vantzos Branching Structures in Elastic Shape Optimization 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03850
Abstract: Fine scale elastic structures are widespread in nature, for instances in plants or bones, whenever stiffness and low weight are required. These patterns frequently refine towards a Dirichlet boundary to ensure an effective load transfer. The paper discusses the optimization of such supporting structures in a specific class of domain patterns in 2D, which composes of periodic and branching period transitions on subdomain facets. These investigations can be considered as a case study to display examples of optimal branching domain patterns. In explicit, a rectangular domain is decomposed into rectangular subdomains, which share facets with neighbouring subdomains or with facets which split on one side into equally sized facets of two different subdomains. On each subdomain one considers an elastic material phase with stiff elasticity coefficients and an approximate void phase with orders of magnitude softer material. For given load on the outer domain boundary, which is distributed on a prescribed fine scale pattern representing the contact area of the shape, the interior elastic phase is optimized with respect to the compliance cost. The elastic stress is supposed to be continuous on the domain and a stress based finite volume discretization is used for the optimization. If in one direction equally sized subdomains with equal adjacent subdomain topology line up, these subdomains are consider as equal copies including the enforced boundary conditions for the stress and form a locally periodic substructure. An alternating descent algorithm is employed for a discrete characteristic function describing the stiff elastic subset on the subdomains and the solution of the elastic state equation. Numerical experiments are shown for compression and shear load on the boundary of a quadratic domain.
2016
Sergio Conti, Martin Lenz and Martin Rumpf Hysteresis in Magnetic Shape Memory Composites: Modeling and Simulation 2016 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.12.010
Abstract: Magnetic shape memory alloys are characterized by the coupling between a structural phase transition and magnetic one. This permits to control the shape change via an external magnetic field, at least in single crystals. Composite materials with single-crystalline particles embedded in a softer matrix have been proposed as a way to overcome the blocking of the transformation at grain boundaries. We investigate hysteresis phenomena for small NiMnGa single crystals embedded in a polymer matrix for slowly varying magnetic fields. The evolution of the microstructure is studied within the rate-independent variational framework proposed by Mielke and Theil (1999). The underlying variational model incorporates linearized elasticity, micromagnetism, stray field and a dissipation term proportional to the volume swept by the phase boundary. The time discretization is based on an incremental minimization of the sum of energy and dissipation. A backtracking approach is employed to approximately ensure the global minimality condition. We illustrate and discuss the influence of the particle geometry (volume fraction, shape, arrangement) and the polymer elastic parameters on the observed hysteresis and compare with recent experimental results.
P. Laurençot, B. Niethammer and J. J. L. Velázquez Oscillatory dynamics in Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with diagonal kernel 2016 http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02929
2015
Stefanie Heyden, Bo Li, Kerstin Weinberg, Sergio Conti and Michael Ortiz A micromechanical damage and fracture model for polymers based on fractional strain-gradient elasticity J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 74: 175-195 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2014.08.005
2014
Gerard Barkema, Patrik L. Ferrari, Joel L. Lebowitz and Herbert Spohn KPZ universality class and the anchored Toom interface Phys. Rev. E, 90(Art. 042116) 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.042116
Abstract: We revisit the anchored Toom interface and use KPZ scaling theory to argue that the interface fluctuations are governed by the Airy1 process with the role of space and time interchanged. There is no free parameter. The predictions are numerically well confirmed for space-time statistics in the stationary state. In particular the spatial fluctuations of the interface are given by the GOE edge distribution of Tracy and Widom.
Abstract: Let X be a finite graph. Let |V| be the number of its vertices and d be its degree. Denote by F1(X) its first spectral density function which counts the number of eigenvalues ≤λ2 of the associated Laplace operator. We provide an elementary proof for the estimate F1(X)(λ)−F1(X)(0)≤2⋅(|V|−1)⋅d⋅λ for 0≤λ<1 which has already been proved by Friedman (1996) [3] before. We explain how this gives evidence for conjectures about approximating Fuglede–Kadison determinants and L2-torsion.