Study on surfaces minimizing elastic energy with boundary constraints.
problem Finding stable configurations of surfaces with elastic boundaries and surface energy.
method Investigation of critical surfaces with mean curvature and spontaneous curvature, coupled to boundary elastic energy.
result Characterization and minimization of surface energy for specific topological shapes.
The paper finds curves minimizing elastic energy pinned at endpoints.
problem Finding curves that minimize elastic energy with fixed endpoints.
method Applying the shooting method to identify and classify critical points.
result Critical points consist of wavelike elasticae, and minimizers have no loops or interior inflection points.
Scheme minimizes p-elastic energy of curves over time.
problem Minimizing p-elastic energy of curves over time. method Minimizing movement scheme with approximate normal graphs.
result Short-time existence and lower bound on solution's lifetime.
We investigate the elastic behavior of knotted loops of springy wire. To this end we minimize the classic bending energy Ebend=∫κ2 together with a small multiple of ropelength R=length/thickness in order to penalize selfintersection. Our main objective is to characterize elastic…
We study the evolution of closed inextensible planar curves under a second order flow that decreases the p-elastic energy. A short time existence result for p∈(1,∞) is obtained via a minimizing movements method. For p=2, that is in the case of the classic elastic energy, long-time existence is retrieve…
Study curves evolving by gradient flow of elastic energy, proving existence, smoothing, and convergence.
problem Evolution of curves with fixed length and clamped boundary conditions.
method Negative L2-gradient flow of elastic energy, existence, parabolic smoothing, constrained Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality. result Convergence to a critical point as time tends to infinity.
Study preserves planar and graphical properties of curves under elastic flow.
problem Maintaining planar and graphical properties of non-compact curves under elastic flow.
method Extended recent work on adapted elastic energy to derive thresholds for planar and graphical embeddedness.
result Derived new Li--Yau type inequality for complete planar curves.
Study on the Euler-Plateau energy with elastic modulus, focusing on minimizers and critical surfaces.
problem Minimizing the Euler-Plateau energy with elastic modulus.
method Analyzing the energy functional and its minimizers, considering different boundary conditions and topological constraints.
result Potential minimizers are highly dependent on physical rigidity parameters, and the area of critical surfaces can be computed from boundary data.
Study on dynamic curves with elastic energy and spontaneous curvature.
problem Modeling and analyzing dynamic planar curves with elastic energy.
method Gradient flow of inclination angle, nonlocal quasilinear system, local well-posedness, global existence, convergence.
result Local well-posedness, global existence, convergence of the flow for weak regularity initial data.
Study on hyperbolic elastic flow, proving convergence and quantifying singularities.
problem Understanding singularities and convergence of elastic flow in hyperbolic plane.
method Analyzes closed and open curves with clamped boundary conditions, proving convergence without small energy assumption.
result Each singularity carries an energy cost of at least 8, and blow-ups are explicitly classified.
Optimal thresholds ensure curves remain embedded in flows.
problem Preserving the embeddedness of elastic flows of curves.
method Variational characterization and minimization of bending energy.
result Optimal thresholds for preserving embeddedness are found.
Gradient flow of elastic energy converges to elastica.
problem Optimizing closed curves to minimize elastic energy.
method Proving the existence of a unique global solution and convergence via Łojasiewicz--Simon gradient inequality.
result Convergence to elastica established for the H2(ds)-gradient flow of modified elastic energy. Straight lines are a basin of attraction for the elastic flow at least to level 1.9615π.
problem Understanding the basin of attraction for the free boundary free elastic flow.
method Steepest descent gradient flow for elastic energy, numerical evidence.
result Straight lines have a basin of attraction at least to level 1.9615π.
Study calculates the elastic energy of curves on a sphere.
problem Elastic energy of curves on a sphere.
method Introduced p-curvature functional for rectifiable curves in the sphere and proved its finiteness. result The p-curvature functional agrees with the integral of geodesic curvature raised to the power p for curves in W2,p. New elastic energy for irregular curves defined through polygonal approximations.
problem Defining elastic energy for irregular curves in any space dimension.
method Relaxation process with p-rotation of inscribed polygonals, focusing on geometric curvature distribution. result Energy finite if and only if curve's arc-length parameterization has second order summability.
Symmetric elastic knots are found for certain classes with dihedral symmetry.
problem Finding elastic knots with specific symmetries.
method Minimizing bending energy under dihedral symmetry constraints.
result Existence of dihedral symmetric elastic knots, including a figure-eight union for the trefoil.
Study on elastic curves with variable stiffness, derived from bending energy.
problem Modeling elastic wires with varying thickness.
method Derive Euler-Lagrange equations for curves with variable bending stiffness.
result Characterizations of elastic curves with variable stiffness.
Study of phase separation and geometry on a closed elastic curve, including dynamics and free energy minimization.
problem Free energy and dynamics of a closed elastic filament coupled to a scalar concentration field.
method Analytical and numerical simulations of coupled Willmore flow and Cahn--Hilliard gradient flow on differential geometry.
result Qualitative changes in free energy landscape due to closure constraint, leading to metastable and stable multi-domain morphologies.
Study on bending energy of surfaces with curvature concentration, deriving new lower bounds.
problem Analyzing the Willmore energy of surfaces with curvature concentration.
method Using isoperimetric inequalities and framed loops, derive new lower bounds for the bending energy.
result Optimal blowup rates of the Willmore energy when curvature is concentrated.
Study shows global invertibility in nonlinear elasticity with vanishing self-repulsion term.
problem Global invertibility in nonlinear elasticity with a vanishing nonlocal self-repulsion term.
method Proves global invertibility in the Γ-limit of elastic energy with a vanishing nonlocal self-repulsion term. result Global invertibility can be obtained in the Γ-limit of the elastic energy with a vanishing nonlocal self-repulsion term. The paper classifies and analyzes the stability of elastic curves with fixed endpoints.
problem Classification and stability of pinned elasticae.
method Critical points of the length-penalized elastic bending energy among planar curves with fixed endpoints.
result Explicit parametrization and classification of all critical points with a threshold parameter \(\hatλ \simeq 0.70107\).
New insights into stability of special curves on spheres.
problem Stability of closed p-elastic curves on spheres. method Analytical proof and construction of curves.
result All closed spherical p-elastic curves for p∈(0,1) are unstable. Li-Yau inequality applied to curves in 2D space.
problem Curves in 2D space with low elastic energy.
method Classical Li-Yau inequality applied to curves.
result Analogous results for curves in 2D space with low elastic energy.
Study on surface configurations with curvature and elasticity.
problem Equilibrium configurations of surfaces with curvature and elasticity.
method Investigates the Euler-Helfrich functional, focusing on axially symmetric surfaces and their variational problems.
result Critical surfaces for the Euler-Helfrich functional, if axially symmetric, satisfy a simpler second order variational problem.
The elastic energy functional of a thin elastic rod or sheet is generalized to the case of an M-dimensional manifold in N-dimensional space. We derive potentials for the stress field and curvatures and find the generalized von Karman equations for a manifold in elastic equilibrium. We perform a scaling analysis of an M…
Flow deforms locally convex curves into target curves.
problem Deforming locally convex curves to target curves with same elastic energy.
method Curvature flow with nonlocal term to evolve curves.
result Flow deforms curves to target curves if elastic energies match.
Study p-Willmore disks with boundary energies, finding equilibrium configurations.
problem Finding equilibrium configurations for p-Willmore disks with boundary energies.
method Model boundary as Kirchhoff elastic rod, interior term dependent on mean and Gaussian curvatures. Study among topological disks and p-Willmore examples.
result Equilibrium configurations for p-Willmore disks with boundary energies.
The paper studies how curves evolve under area constraints and converges to a critical point.
problem Evolution of plane curves with fixed area under elastic energy gradient.
method Local and global existence of the flow, simplicity assumption, Łojasiewicz--Simon inequality.
result The evolving curve's length remains bounded and converges to a critical point.
The elastic flow of curves converges smoothly to a critical point.
problem Smooth convergence of elastic flow of curves.
method Application of Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality.
result Smooth convergence to a critical point.
Energy consumption in Ecuador has increased significantly during the last decades, affecting negatively the financial position of the country since large energy consumption subsidies are provided in its internal market and Ecuador is mostly a crude oil exporter and oil derivatives importer country. This research seeks …
For a smooth curve γ, we define its elastic energy as E(γ)=21∫γk2(s)ds where k(s) is the curvature. The main purpose of the paper is to prove that among all smooth, simply connected, bounded open sets of prescribed area in R2, the disc has the boundary with the least elastic energy. In…
We prove a relation between the scaling hβ of the elastic energies of shrinking non-Euclidean bodies Sh of thickness h→0, and the curvature along their mid-surface S. This extends and generalizes similar results for plates [BLS16, LRR] to any dimension and co-dimension. In particular, it proves that the na…
We study a class of elastic energy functionals for maps between planar domains (among them the so-called squared distance functional) whose critical points (elastic maps) allow a far more complete theory than one would expect from general elasticity theory. For some of these functionals elastic maps even admit a "Weier…
The Poisson problem consists in finding an immersed surface Σ⊂Rm minimising Germain's elastic energy (known as Willmore energy in geometry) with prescribed boundary, boundary Gauss map and area which constitutes a non-linear model for the equilibrium state of thin, clamped elastic plates originating f…
Classifies soap film surfaces with vertical potentials.
problem Classifying soap film surfaces with vertical potentials.
method Variational characterization of n-elastic curves. result Obtains a full description of n-elastic curves. Approximate 3D elastic curves with exact constraints
problem Designing and approximating 3D elastic curves
method Numerically stable method for recovering 11 parameters
result Fast and stable approximation of arbitrary curves
We consider planar networks of three curves that meet at two junctions with prescribed equal angles, minimizing a combination of the elastic energy and the length functional. We prove existence and regularity of minimizers, and we show some properties of the minimal configurations.
The elastic flow, which is the L2-gradient flow of the elastic energy, has several applications in geometry and elasticity theory. We present stable discretizations for the elastic flow in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are conformally flat, i.e.\ conformally equivalent to the Euclidean space. Examples in…
The paper studies the free elastic flow of closed curves and finds their asymptotic shape converges to a circle.
problem Challenges in studying the asymptotic behavior of the free elastic flow for closed curves.
method Analysis of the free elastic flow as an L2-gradient flow for Euler's elastic energy. result An appropriate rescaling of initial curves geometrically close to circles converges to a unique round circle.
Motivated by the problem of finding an explicit description of a developable narrow Moebius strip of minimal bending energy, which was first formulated by M. Sadowsky in 1930, we will develop the theory of elastic strips. Recently E.L. Starostin and G.H.M. van der Heijden found a numerical description for an elastic Mo…
Study shows how compact shapes can be rigidly mapped into complete manifolds.
problem Rigidity of isometric immersions in complete manifolds.
method Local quantitative rigidity estimates, reduced to Euclidean setting.
result Subsequence of immersions converges to an isometric immersion.
The edges of torn plastic sheets and growing leaves often display hierarchical buckling patterns. We show that this complex morphology (i) emerges even in zero strain configurations, and (ii) is driven by a competition between the two principal curvatures, rather than between bending and stretching. We identify the key…
In this paper, we consider the classical variational problem in the Galilean space. we develop the Euler-Lagrange equations for a elastic line on an oriented surface in the Galilean 3-dimensional space G3. Using the varia- tion method, we will try to give some characterization for the solution curve (the elastic lin…
Study curves evolving on hypersurfaces with free boundaries, preserving length.
problem Evolution of curves on hypersurfaces with free boundaries.
method Nonlocal evolution equation with nonlinear boundary conditions, short-time existence, uniqueness, and parabolic energy estimates.
result Global existence and convergence to critical points proved.
In non-linear incompatible elasticity, the configurations are maps from a non-Euclidean body manifold into the ambient Euclidean space, Rk. We prove the Γ-convergence of elastic energies for configurations of a converging sequence, Mn→M, of body manifolds. This convergence result …
Classifies pinned p-elasticae and finds unique optimality exponents.
problem Classifying and understanding p-elasticae under pinned boundary conditions. method Classification and analysis of p-elasticae, proving uniqueness and existence. result Discovery of a unique exponent p≃1.5728 for full optimality. Unified theory solves strain compatibility and elasticity of origami metamaterials.
problem Understanding and controlling the morphing paths of origami metamaterials.
method Unified theory for a wide array of origami tessellations, solving strain compatibility and elasticity.
result Origami metamaterials exhibit equal but opposite in-plane and out-of-plane Poisson's ratios and bending energy depends on strain gradient.
Unified approach classifies stable and minimal elastic curves.
problem Classifying stable and minimal elastic curves under various conditions.
method Unified geometric approach using a `cut-and-paste` trick.
result Complete classification of stable closed p-elasticae and stable pinned p-elasticae.