Gradient Flows as a Selection Procedure for Equilibria of Nonconvex Energies

DOI10.1137/050643982zbMath1117.35004OpenAlexW1991372908MaRDI QIDQ5296030

Christoph Ortner

Publication date: 31 July 2007

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/60411/1/WRAP_Ortner_2006-SIMA-GFlow.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

continuum limitLennard-Jones potentialgradient flowsatomistic models\(\lambda\)-convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38)

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