TY - JOUR T1 - Minimizing movements for mean curvature flow of droplets with prescribed contact angle JF - Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giovanni Bellettini A1 - Matteo Novaga A1 - Shokhrukh Kholmatov KW - Capillary functional KW - Mean curvature flow with prescribed contact angle KW - Minimizing movements KW - Sets of finite perimeter AB -

We study the mean curvature motion of a droplet flowing by mean curvature on a horizontal hyperplane with a possibly nonconstant prescribed contact angle. Using the solutions constructed as a limit of an approximation algorithm of Almgren–Taylor–Wang and Luckhaus–Sturzenhecker, we show the existence of a weak evolution, and its compatibility with a distributional solution. We also prove various comparison results. Résumé Nous étudions le mouvement par courbure moyenne d'une goutte qui glisse par courbure moyenne sur un hyperplan horizontal avec un angle de contact prescrit éventuellement non constant. En utilisant les solutions construites comme limites d'un algorithme d'approximation dû à Almgren, Taylor et Wang et Luckhaus et Sturzenhecker, nous montrons l'existence d'une évolution faible, et sa compatibilité avec une solution au sens des distributions. Nous démontrons également plusieurs résultats de comparaison.

VL - 117 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021782418300825 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Minimizing Movements for Mean Curvature Flow of Partitions JF - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giovanni Bellettini A1 - Shokhrukh Kholmatov AB -

We prove the existence of a weak global in time mean curvature flow of a bounded partition of space using the method of minimizing movements. The result is extended to the case when suitable driving forces are present. We also prove some consistency results for a minimizing movement solution with smooth and viscosity solutions when the evolution starts from a partition made by a union of bounded sets at a positive distance. In addition, the motion starting from the union of convex sets at a positive distance agrees with the classical mean curvature flow and is stable with respect to the Hausdorff convergence of the initial partitions.

VL - 50 UR - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1159294 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Minimizers of anisotropic perimeters with cylindrical norms JF - Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis Y1 - 2017 A1 - Giovanni Bellettini A1 - Matteo Novaga A1 - Shokhrukh Kholmatov KW - anisotropic Bernstein problem; KW - minimal cones KW - Non parametric minimal surfaces KW - Sets of finite perimeter AB -

We study various regularity properties of minimizers of the Φ–perimeter, where Φ is a norm. Under suitable assumptions on Φ and on the dimension of the ambient space, we prove that the boundary of a cartesian minimizer is locally a Lipschitz graph out of a closed singular set of small Hausdorff dimension. Moreover, we show the following anisotropic Bernstein-type result: any entire cartesian minimizer is the subgraph of a monotone function depending only on one variable.

VL - 16 UR - http://aimsciences.org//article/id/47054f15-00c7-40b7-9da1-4c0b1d0a103d ER -