7 research outputs found
Phase field approach to optimal packing problems and related Cheeger clusters
In a fixed domain of we study the asymptotic behaviour of optimal
clusters associated to -Cheeger constants and natural energies like the
sum or maximum: we prove that, as the parameter converges to the
"critical" value , optimal Cheeger clusters
converge to solutions of different packing problems for balls, depending on the
energy under consideration. As well, we propose an efficient phase field
approach based on a multiphase Gamma convergence result of Modica-Mortola type,
in order to compute -Cheeger constants, optimal clusters and, as a
consequence of the asymptotic result, optimal packings. Numerical experiments
are carried over in two and three space dimensions
Optimal unions of scaled copies of domains and Polya's conjecture
Given a bounded Euclidean domain Ω, we consider the sequence of optimisers of the kth Laplacian eigenvalue within the family consisting of all possible disjoint unions of scaled copies of Ω with fixed total volume. We show that this sequence encodes information yielding conditions for Ω to satisfy Pólya’s conjecture with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. This is an extension of a result by Colbois and El Soufi which applies only to the case where the family of domains consists of all bounded domains. Furthermore, we fully classify the different possible behaviours for such sequences, depending on whether Pólya’s conjecture holds for a given specific domain or not. This approach allows us to recover a stronger version of Pólya’s original results for tiling domains satisfying some dynamical billiard conditions, and a strenghtening of Urakawa’s bound in terms of packing density
Qualitative and Numerical Analysis of a Spectral Problem with Perimeter Constraint
International audienceWe consider the problem of optimizing the k th eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplace operator under perimeter constraint. We provide a new method based on a Γ-convergence result for approximating the corresponding optimal shapes. We also give new optimality conditions in the case of multiple eigenvalues. We deduce from previous conditions the fact that optimal shapes never contain flat parts in their boundaries