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Heat flow with tangent penalisation converging to mean curvature motion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Jian Zhai
Jian Zhai
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
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Abstract

In this paper, we prove that mean curvature motion can be regarded as the singular limit of the following model:

where ε > 0 is a small parameter and . This model is related to the Landau–Lifshitz equation of ferromagnetism. Local existence of classical solutions of the Dirichlet problem and global existence of the travelling wave solutions are also obtained.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 128 , Issue 4 , 1998 , pp. 875 - 894
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1998

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