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Publications and source records attributed to Michele Colturato.
We consider a quasilinear elliptic equation with right hand side measure, in which the lower order term has a behavior of jumping type. By means of techniques of degree theory, we prove the existence of one or two entropy solutions.
In this paper we analyze a new temperature-dependent model for adhesive contact that encompasses nonlocal adhesive forces and damage effects, as well as nonlocal heat flux contributions on the contact surface. The related PDE system combines heat equations, in the bulk domain and on the contact surface, with mechanical force balances, including micro-forces, that result in the equation for the displacements and in the flow rule for the damage-type internal variable describing the state of the adhesive bonds. Nonlocal effects are accounted for by terms featuring integral operators on the contact surface. The analysis of this system poses several difficulties due to its overall highly nonlinear character, and in particular to the presence of quadratic terms, in the rates of the strain tensor and of the internal variable, that feature in the bulk and surface heat equations. Another major challenge is related to proving strict positivity for the bulk and surface temperatures. We tackle these issues by very careful estimates that enable us to prove the existence of global-in-time solutions and could be useful in other contexts. All calculations are rigorously rendered on an accurately devised time discretization scheme in which the limit passage is carried out via variational techniques.
We consider a phase-field system of Caginalp type perturbed by the presence of an additional maximal monotone nonlinearity. Such a system arises from a recent study of a sliding mode control problem. We prove existence and regularity of the solutions. Moreover, under further assumptions, we show the continuous dependence on the initial data and the uniqueness of the solution.
We prove existence and regularity for the solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard system describing the phenomenon of phase separation for a material contained in a bounded and regular domain. Since the first equation of the system is perturbed by the presence of an additional maximal monotone operator, we show our results using suitable regularization of the nonlinearities of the problem and performing some a priori estimates which allow us to pass to the limit thanks to compactness and monotonicity arguments. Next, under further assumptions, we deduce a continuous dependence estimate whence the uniqueness property is also achieved. Then, we consider the relating sliding mode control (SMC) problem and show that the chosen SMC law forces a suitable linear combination of the temperature and the phase to reach a given (space dependent) value within finite time.
In the present contribution we consider a singular phase field system located in a smooth and bounded three-dimensional domain. The entropy balance equation is perturbed by a logarithmic nonlinearity and by the presence of an additional term involving a possibly nonlocal maximal monotone operator and arising from a class of sliding mode control problems. The second equation of the system accounts for the phase dynamics, and it is deduced from a balance law for the microscopic forces that are responsible for the phase transition process. The resulting system is highly nonlinear; the main difficulties lie in the contemporary presence of two nonlinearities, one of which under time derivative, in the entropy balance equation. Consequently, we are able to prove only the existence of solutions. To this aim, we will introduce a backward finite differences scheme and argue on this by proving uniform estimates and passing to the limit on the time step.
We consider a quasilinear elliptic equation, with right hand side measure, which does not satisfy the usual coercivity assumption. We prove an existence result in the line of the Fredholm alternative. For this purpose we develop a variant of degree theory suited to this setting.