Evolution of spoon-shaped networks

  • Received: 01 March 2015 Revised: 01 September 2015
  • Primary: 53C44; Secondary: 53A04, 35K55.

  • We consider a regular embedded network composed by two curves, one of them closed, in a convex and smooth domain Ω. The two curves meet only at one point, forming angles of 120 degrees. The non-closed curve has a fixed end--point on Ω. We study the evolution by curvature of this network. We show that the maximal time of existence is finite and depends only on the area enclosed in the initial loop, if the length of the non-closed curve stays bounded from below during the evolution. Moreover, the closed curve shrinks to a point and the network is asymptotically approaching, after dilations and extraction of a subsequence, a Brakke spoon.

    Citation: Alessandra Pluda. Evolution of spoon-shaped networks[J]. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2016, 11(3): 509-526. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2016007

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