Search results for "Minimal surface"
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On the regularity of critical and minimal sets of a free interface problem
2015
We study a free interface problem of finding the optimal energy configuration for mixtures of two conducting materials with an additional perimeter penalization of the interface. We employ the regularity theory of linear elliptic equations to study the possible opening angles of Taylor cones and to give a different proof of a partial regularity result by Fan Hua Lin [Calc Var. Partial Differential Equations, 1993].
The Plateau-Bézier Problem
2003
We study the Plateau problem restricted to polynomial surfaces using techniques coming from the theory of Computer Aided Geometric Design. The results can be used to obtain polynomial approximations to minimal surfaces. The relationship between harmonic Bezier surfaces and minimal surfaces with free boundaries is shown.
On the topology of surfaces with the generalised simple lift property.
2020
In this paper, we study the geometry of surfaces with the generalised simple lift property. This work generalises previous results by Bernstein and Tinaglia, and it is motivated by the fact that leaves of a minimal lamination obtained as a limit of a sequence of properly embedded minimal disks satisfy the generalised simple lift property.
Hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature over obstacles
1973
Let ~2 be a bounded domain in the euclidean space IR", n-> 2, with Lipschitz boundary ~ . We shall consider surfaces which are graphs of functions u defined on f2 having prescribed mean curvature H=H(x, u) with the side condition that they should be bounded from below by an obstacle ~b. The case H = 0 (minimal surfaces) has been discussed in detail by several authors, compare [6, 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24] of the references. Tomi [-31] has also investigated parametric surfaces with variable H. More general variational problems with obstructions have been discussed in [-9] and [-10]. During the session on "Variationsrechnung", held from June 18th to June 24th, 1972 in Oberwolfach, Mirand…
Nonlocal Minimal Surfaces and Nonlocal Curvature
2019
Recall that if a set E has minimal local perimeter in a bounded set Ω, then it has zero mean curvature at each point of ∂E ∩ Ω (see [51]), and the equation that says that the curvature is equal to zero is the Euler–Lagrange equation associated to the minimization of the perimeter of a set.
Bézier surfaces of minimal area
2002
There are minimal surfaces admitting a Bezier form. We study the properties that the associated net of control points must satisfy. We show that in the bicubical case all minimal surfaces are, up to an affine transformation, pieces of the Enneper's surface.
Approximation von extremalflächenstücken (hyperbolischen typs) durch charakteristische räumliche vierecke
1982
We consider solutions z of the Cauchy-problem for hyperbolic Euler-Lagrange equations derived from a general Lagrangian f(x, y, z; zx, zy) in two independent variables x, y. z is supposed to be an extremal of the corresponding variational problem. Visualizing z as a surface in R3 we give a geometric interpretation of Lewy's well-known characteristic approximation scheme for the numerical solution of second order hyperbolic equations by approximating z via a polyhedral construction built up from subunits which consist of two characteristic triangles having one side in common but lying on different planes in R3. Utilizing ideas from Cartan-geometry one can (in an appropriate sense) introduce …
An inverse problem for the minimal surface equation
2022
We use the method of higher order linearization to study an inverse boundary value problem for the minimal surface equation on a Riemannian manifold $(\mathbb{R}^n,g)$, where the metric $g$ is conformally Euclidean. In particular we show that with the knowledge of Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to the minimal surface equation, one can determine the Taylor series of the conformal factor $c(x)$ at $x_n=0$ up to a multiplicative constant. We show this both in the full data case and in some partial data cases.