01380nas a2200133 4500008004300000245007200043210006900115260001500184520093400199100001901133700001801152700002501170856005101195 2015 en_Ud 00aAnisotropic mean curvature on facets and relations with capillarity0 aAnisotropic mean curvature on facets and relations with capillar bde Gruyter3 a

We discuss the relations between the anisotropic calibrability of a facet F of a solid crystal E, and the capillary problem on a capillary tube with base F. When F is parallel to a facet of the Wulff shape, calibrability is equivalent to show the existence of an anisotropic subunitary vector field in $F, with suitable normal trace on the boundary of the facet, and with constant divergence equal to the anisotropic mean curvature of F. When the Wulff shape is a cylynder, assuming E convex at F, and F (strictly) calibrable, such a vector field is obtained by solving the capillary problem on F in absence of gravity and with zero contact angle. We show some examples of facets for which it is possible, even without the strict calibrability assumption, to build one of these vector fields. The construction provides, at least for convex facets of class C^{1,1}, the solution of the total variation flow starting at 1_F.

1 aAmato, Stefano1 aTealdi, Lucia1 aBellettini, Giovanni uhttp://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/3448101209nas a2200121 4500008004300000245007700043210006900120520072500189100001900914700002500933700002200958856010700980 2015 en_Ud 00aConstrained BV functions on double coverings for Plateau's type problems0 aConstrained BV functions on double coverings for Plateaus type p3 a

We link Brakke's "soap films" covering construction with the theory of finite perimeter sets, in order to study Plateau's problem without fixing a priori the topology of the solution. The minimization is set up in the class of $BV$ functions defined on a double covering space of the complement of an $(n − 2)$-dimensional smooth compact manifold $S$ without boundary. The main novelty of our approach stands in the presence of a suitable constraint on the fibers, which couples together the covering sheets. The model allows to avoid all issues concerning the presence of the boundary $S$. The constraint is lifted in a natural way to Sobolev spaces, allowing also an approach based on $Γ$-convergence theory.

1 aAmato, Stefano1 aBellettini, Giovanni1 aPaolini, Maurizio uhttps://www.math.sissa.it/publication/constrained-bv-functions-double-coverings-plateaus-type-problems00981nas a2200121 4500008004100000245008300041210006900124260001000193520048800203653003100691100001900722856011800741 2015 en d00aSome results on anisotropic mean curvature and other phase-transition problems0 aSome results on anisotropic mean curvature and other phasetransi bSISSA3 aThe present thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part, we analyze a suitable regularization — which we call nonlinear multidomain model — of the motion of a hypersurface under smooth anisotropic mean curvature flow. The second part of the thesis deals with crystalline mean curvature of facets of a solid set of R^3 . Finally, in the third part we study a phase-transition model for Plateau’s type problems based on the theory of coverings and of BV functions.10aAnisotropic mean curvature1 aAmato, Stefano uhttps://www.math.sissa.it/publication/some-results-anisotropic-mean-curvature-and-other-phase-transition-problems01020nas a2200145 4500008004100000020001500041245007100056210006500127520044300192653007200635100001900707700002500726700002200751856010100773 2013 en d a887642472400aThe nonlinear multidomain model: a new formal asymptotic analysis.0 anonlinear multidomain model a new formal asymptotic analysis3 a

We study the asymptotic analysis of a singularly perturbed weakly parabolic system of m- equations of anisotropic reaction-diffusion type. Our main result formally shows that solutions to the system approximate a geometric motion of a hypersurface by anisotropic mean curvature. The anisotropy, supposed to be uniformly convex, is explicit and turns out to be the dual of the star-shaped combination of the m original anisotropies.

10abidomain model, anisotropic mean curvature, star-shaped combination1 aAmato, Stefano1 aBellettini, Giovanni1 aPaolini, Maurizio uhttps://www.math.sissa.it/publication/nonlinear-multidomain-model-new-formal-asymptotic-analysis