A total-variation surface energy model for thin films of martensitic crystals

  • Mitchell Luskin

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  • Pavel Belik

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Abstract

We rigorously derive a thin-film limit for martensitic crystals that utilizes the total variation of the deformation gradient to model the energy on surfaces separating regions of different variants. We find that the deformation for an infinitesimally thin film minimizes a two-dimensional energy.

Cite this article

Mitchell Luskin, Pavel Belik, A total-variation surface energy model for thin films of martensitic crystals. Interfaces Free Bound. 4 (2002), no. 1, pp. 71–88

DOI 10.4171/IFB/53