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Relaxation of some multi-well problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2007

Kaushik Bhattacharya  and
Georg Dolzmann
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA ([email protected])
Georg Dolzmann
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA ([email protected])
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Abstract

Mathematical models of phase transitions in solids lead to the variational problem, minimize ∫Ω W (Du) dx, where W has a multi-well structure, i.e. W = 0 on a multi-well set K and W > 0 otherwise. We study this problem in two dimensions in the case of equal determinant, i.e. for K = SO(2)U1 ∪ … ∪SO(2)Uk or K = O(2)U1 ∪ … ∪ O(2)Uk for U1, … , Uk ∈ M2×2 with det Ui = δ in three dimensions when the matrices Ui are essentially two-dimensional and also for K = SO(3)Û1 ∪ … ∪ SO(3)Ûk for U1, … , Uk ∈ M3×3 with , which arises in the study of thin films. Here, Ûi denotes the (3×2) matrix formed with the first two columns of Ui. We characterize generalized convex hulls, including the quasiconvex hull, of these sets, prove existence of minimizers and identify conditions for the uniqueness of the minimizing Young measure. Finally, we use the characterization of the quasiconvex hull to propose ‘approximate relaxed energies’, quasiconvex functions which vanish on the quasiconvex hull of K and grow quadratically away from it.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 279 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001

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