scholarly journals Renormalized energies for unit-valued harmonic maps in multiply connected domains

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Rémy Rodiac ◽  
Paúl Ubillús

In this article we derive the expression of renormalized energies for unit-valued harmonic maps defined on a smooth bounded domain in R 2 whose boundary has several connected components. The notion of renormalized energies was introduced by Bethuel–Brezis–Hélein in order to describe the position of limiting Ginzburg–Landau vortices in simply connected domains. We show here, how a non-trivial topology of the domain modifies the expression of the renormalized energies. We treat the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions and Neumann boundary conditions as well.

2018 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 01009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassil M. Vassilev ◽  
Daniel M. Dantchev ◽  
Peter A. Djondjorov

In this article we consider a critical thermodynamic system with the shape of a thin film confined between two parallel planes. It is assumed that the state of the system at a given temperature and external ordering field is described by order-parameter profiles, which minimize the one-dimensional counterpart of the standard ϕ4 Ginzburg–Landau Hamiltonian and meet the so-called Neumann – Neumann boundary conditions. We give analytic representation of the extremals of this variational problem in terms ofWeierstrass elliptic functions. Then, depending on the temperature and ordering field we determine the minimizers and obtain the phase diagram in the temperature-field plane.


The stresses induced in the vacuum by the uniform acceleration of an infinite plane conductor are computed for the massless scalar and electromagnetic fields. Both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are considered for the scalar field; far from the conductor it is found, independently of the boundary condition, that the vacuum stress is ‘local’ and corresponds to the absence from the vacuum of black body radiation. Approaching the conductor, the energy density in the Dirichlet case is slightly lower than the ‘local’ term, and in the Neumann case slightly higher. At very small distances it again has the same asymptotic form for both scalar fields. For the electromagnetic field the results are similar to those for the scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Far from the conductor the spectrum is again black-body, though not Planckian. In all cases the acausal nature of ‘ perfect conductor ’ boundary conditions prevents the stress tensor from being finite on the conductor.


1993 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 1151-1163
Author(s):  
Joel D. Avrin

SynopsisWe consider three models of multiple-step combustion processes on bounded spatial domains. Previously, steady-state convergence results have been established for these models with zero Neumann boundary conditions imposed on the temperature as well as the mass fractions. We retain here throughout the same boundary conditions on the mass fractions, but in our first set of results we establish steady-state convergence results with fixed Dirichlet boundary conditions on the temperature. Next, under certain physically reasonable assumptions, we develop, for two of the models, estimates on the decay rates of both mass fractions to zero, while for the remaining model we develop estimates on the decay rate of one concentration to zero and establish a positive lower bound on the other mass fraction. These results hold under either set of boundary conditions, but when the Dirichlet conditions are imposed on the temperature, we are able to obtain estimates on the rate of convergence of the temperature to its (generally nonconstant) steady-state. Finally, we improve the results of a previous paper by adding a temperature convergence result.


2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 3211-3231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo G. S. van Hooijdonk ◽  
Herman J. H. Clercx ◽  
Cedrick Ansorge ◽  
Arnold F. Moene ◽  
Bas J. H. van de Wiel

Abstract We perform direct numerical simulation of the Couette flow as a model for the stable boundary layer. The flow evolution is investigated for combinations of the (bulk) Reynolds number and the imposed surface buoyancy flux. First, we establish what the similarities and differences are between applying a fixed buoyancy difference (Dirichlet) and a fixed buoyancy flux (Neumann) as boundary conditions. Moreover, two distinct parameters were recently proposed for the turbulent-to-laminar transition: the Reynolds number based on the Obukhov length and the “shear capacity,” a velocity-scale ratio based on the buoyancy flux maximum. We study how these parameters relate to each other and to the atmospheric boundary layer. The results show that in a weakly stratified equilibrium state, the flow statistics are virtually the same between the different types of boundary conditions. However, at stronger stratification and, more generally, in nonequilibrium conditions, the flow statistics do depend on the type of boundary condition imposed. In the case of Neumann boundary conditions, a clear sensitivity to the initial stratification strength is observed because of the existence of multiple equilibriums, while for Dirichlet boundary conditions, only one statistically steady turbulent equilibrium exists for a particular set of boundary conditions. As in previous studies, we find that when the imposed surface flux is larger than the maximum buoyancy flux, no turbulent steady state occurs. Analytical investigation and simulation data indicate that this maximum buoyancy flux converges for increasing Reynolds numbers, which suggests a possible extrapolation to the atmospheric case.


2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Kunze ◽  
Rafael Ortega

AbstractWe consider semilinear elliptic problems of the form Δu + g(u) = f(x) with Neumann boundary conditions or Δu+λ1u+g(u) = f(x) with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and we derive conditions on g and f under which an upper bound on the number of solutions can be obtained.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qintao Gan ◽  
Tielin Liu ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Tianshi Lv

In this paper, the synchronization problem for a class of generalized neural networks with interval time-varying delays and reaction-diffusion terms is investigated under Dirichlet boundary conditions and Neumann boundary conditions, respectively. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, both delay-derivative-dependent and delay-range-dependent conditions are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), whose solvability heavily depends on the information of reaction-diffusion terms. The proposed generalized neural networks model includes reaction-diffusion local field neural networks and reaction-diffusion static neural networks as its special cases. The obtained synchronization results are easy to check and improve upon the existing ones. In our results, the assumptions for the differentiability and monotonicity on the activation functions are removed. It is assumed that the state delay belongs to a given interval, which means that the lower bound of delay is not restricted to be zero. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods is shown by simulation examples.


2020 ◽  
Vol 181 (3) ◽  
pp. 944-951
Author(s):  
M. Napiórkowski ◽  
J. Piasecki ◽  
J. W. Turner

Abstract We analyze the Casimir forces for an ideal Bose gas enclosed between two infinite parallel walls separated by the distance D. The walls are characterized by the Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show that if the thermodynamic state with Bose–Einstein condensate present is correctly approached along the path pertinent to the Dirichlet b.c. then the leading term describing the large-distance decay of thermal Casimir force between the walls is $$\sim 1/D^{2}$$ ∼ 1 / D 2 with a non-universal amplitude. The next order correction is $$\sim \ln D/D^3$$ ∼ ln D / D 3 . These observations remain in contrast with the decay law for both the periodic and Neumann boundary conditions for which the leading term is $$\sim 1/D^3$$ ∼ 1 / D 3 with a universal amplitude. We associate this discrepancy with the D-dependent positive value of the one-particle ground state energy in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions.


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