A prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation modeling the corneal shape: A paradigm of nonlinear analysis

Chiara Corsato; Colette De Coster; Franco Obersnel; Pierpaolo Omari; Alessandro Soranzo

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April 2018, 11(2): 213-256. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2018013

A prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation modeling the corneal shape: A paradigm of nonlinear analysis

Chiara Corsato ^1, , Colette De Coster ^2, , Franco Obersnel ^3, , Pierpaolo Omari ^3,, and Alessandro Soranzo ^3,

1.	Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, Matematiche e Statistiche, Piazzale Europa 1,34127 Trieste, Italy
2.	Univ. Valenciennes, EA 4015 -LAMAV -FR CNRS 2956, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
3.	Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze-Sezione di Matematica e Informatica, Via A. Valerio 12/1,34127 Trieste, Italy

* Corresponding author: Pierpaolo Omari

Received December 2016 Revised April 2017 Published January 2018

Fund Project: This paper was written under the auspices of INdAM-GNAMPA. The third and the fourth named authors have also been supported by the University of Trieste, in the frame of the 2015 FRA project "Differential Equations: Qualitative and Computational Theory".

In this paper we survey, complete and refine some recent results concerning the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation

$\begin{equation*}{\rm{ -div}}\left({\nabla u}/{\sqrt{1 + |\nabla u|^2}}\right) = -au + {b}/{\sqrt{1 + |\nabla u|^2}},\end{equation*}$

in a bounded Lipschitz domain

$Ω \subset \mathbb{R}^N$

, with

$a,b>0$

parameters. This equation appears in the description of the geometry of the human cornea, as well as in the modeling theory of capillarity phenomena for compressible fluids. Here we show how various techniques of nonlinear functional analysis can successfully be applied to derive a complete picture of the solvability patterns of the problem.

Keywords: Prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation, positive solution, Dirichlet boundary condition, generalized solution, classical solution, singular solution, existence, uniqueness, regularity, boundary behaviour, bounded variation function, implicit function theorem, topological degree, variational method, lower and upper solutions.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J93, 35J25, 35J62, 35J67; Secondary: 35B09, 35B51, 35J20.

Citation: Chiara Corsato, Colette De Coster, Franco Obersnel, Pierpaolo Omari, Alessandro Soranzo. A prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation modeling the corneal shape: A paradigm of nonlinear analysis. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2018, 11 (2) : 213-256. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2018013

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[2]	G. Anzellotti, Pairings between measures and bounded functions and compensated compactness, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., 135 (1983), 293-318. doi: 10.1007/BF01781073. Google Scholar
[3]	M. Athanassenas and J. Clutterbuck, A capillarity problem for compressible liquids, Pacific J. Math., 243 (2009), 213-232. doi: 10.2140/pjm.2009.243.213. Google Scholar
[4]	M. Athanassenas and R. Finn, Compressible fluids in a capillary tube, Pacific J. Math., 224 (2006), 201-229. doi: 10.2140/pjm.2006.224.201. Google Scholar
[5]	M. Bergner, The Dirichlet problem for graphs of prescribed anisotropic mean curvature in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, Analysis (Munich), 28 (2008), 149-166. doi: 10.1524/anly.2008.0906. Google Scholar
[6]	M. Bergner, On the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed mean curvature equation over general domains, Differential Geom. Appl., 27 (2009), 335-343. doi: 10.1016/j.difgeo.2009.03.002. Google Scholar
[7]	D. Bonheure, P. Habets, F. Obersnel and P. Omari, Classical and non-classical solutions of a prescribed curvature equation, J. Differential Equations, 243 (2007), 208-237. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2007.05.031. Google Scholar
[8]	D. Bonheure, P. Habets, F. Obersnel and P. Omari, Classical and non-classical positive solutions of a prescribed curvature equation with singularities, Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste, 39 (2007), 63-85. Google Scholar
[9]	I. Coelho, C. Corsato and P. Omari, A one-dimensional prescribed curvature equation modeling the corneal shape Bound. Value Probl. , 2014 (2014), p127. doi: 10.1186/1687-2770-2014-127. Google Scholar
[10]	C. Corsato, C. De Coster and P. Omari, Radially symmetric solutions of an anisotropic mean curvature equation modeling the corneal shape, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst.(Suppl.), 2015 (2015), 297-303. doi: 10.3934/proc.2015.0297. Google Scholar
[11]	C. Corsato, C. De Coster and P. Omari, The Dirichlet problem for a prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation: existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions, J. Differential Equations, 260 (2016), 4572-4618. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2015.11.024. Google Scholar
[12]	L. Dupaigne, Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 2011. doi: 10.1201/b10802. Google Scholar
[13]	I. Ekeland and R. Temam, Convex Analysis and Variational Problems Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1999. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611971088. Google Scholar
[14]	L. Evans and R. F. Gariepy, Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1992. Google Scholar
[15]	D. G. de Figueiredo, Lectures on the Ekeland Variational Principle with Applications and Detours Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Lectures on Mathematics and Physics, 81 Springer, Berlin, 1989. Google Scholar
[16]	R. Finn, On the equations of capillarity, J. Math. Fluid Mech., 3 (2001), 139-151. doi: 10.1007/PL00000966. Google Scholar
[17]	R. Finn, Capillarity problems for compressible fluids, Mem. Differential Equations Math. Phys., 33 (2004), 47-55. Google Scholar
[18]	R. Finn and G. Luli, On the capillary problem for compressible fluids, J. Math. Fluid Mech., 9 (2007), 87-103. doi: 10.1007/s00021-005-0203-5. Google Scholar
[19]	E. Gagliardo, Caratterizzazioni delle tracce sulla frontiera relative ad alcune classi di funzioni in n variabili, Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova, 27 (1957), 284-305. Google Scholar
[20]	C. Gerhardt, Existence and regularity of capillary surfaces, Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. (4), 10 (1974), 317-335. Google Scholar
[21]	C. Gerhardt, Existence, regularity, and boundary behavior of generalized surfaces of prescribed mean curvature, Math. Z., 139 (1974), 173-198. doi: 10.1007/BF01418314. Google Scholar
[22]	C. Gerhardt, On the regularity of solutions to variational problems in $BV(Ω)$, Math. Z., 149 (1976), 281-286. doi: 10.1007/BF01175590. Google Scholar
[23]	D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order Springer, New York, 2001. Google Scholar
[24]	E. Giusti, On the equation of surfaces of prescribed mean curvature. Existence and uniqueness without boundary conditions, Invent. Math., 46 (1978), 111-137. doi: 10.1007/BF01393250. Google Scholar
[25]	E. Giusti, Generalized solutions for the mean curvature equation, Pacific J. Math., 88 (1980), 297-321. doi: 10.2140/pjm.1980.88.297. Google Scholar
[26]	E. Giusti, Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variations Birkhäuser, Basel, 1984. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9486-0. Google Scholar
[27]	M. Goebel, On Fréchet-differentiability of Nemytskij operators acting in Hölder spaces, Glasgow Math. J., 33 (1991), 1-5. doi: 10.1017/S0017089500007965. Google Scholar
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[29]	K. Hayasida and M. Nakatani, On the Dirichlet problem of prescribed mean curvature equations without H-convexity condition, Nagoya Math. J., 157 (2000), 177-209. doi: 10.1017/S0027763000007248. Google Scholar
[30]	R. Huff and J. McCuan, Minimal graphs with discontinuous boundary values, J. Aust. Math. Soc., 86 (2009), 75-95. doi: 10.1017/S1446788708000335. Google Scholar
[31]	H. Jenkins and J. Serrin, The Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation in higher dimensions, J. Reine Angew. Math., 229 (1968), 170-187. doi: 10.1515/crll.1968.229.170. Google Scholar
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[38]	J. López-Gómez, P. Omari and S. Rivetti, Bifurcation of positive solutions for a one-dimensional indefinite quasilinear Neumann problem, Nonlinear Anal., 155 (2017), 1-51. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2017.01.007. Google Scholar
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[40]	T. Marquardt, Remark on the anisotropic prescribed mean curvature equation on arbitrary domains, Math. Z., 264 (2010), 507-511. doi: 10.1007/s00209-009-0476-0. Google Scholar
[41]	M. Miranda, Superfici minime illimitate, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci., 4 (1977), 313-322. Google Scholar
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[44]	J. Nečas, Direct Methods in the Theory of Elliptic Equations Springer, New York, 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10455-8. Google Scholar
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[46]	W. Okrasiński and Ł. Płociniczak, A nonlinear mathematical model of the corneal shape, Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl., 13 (2012), 1498-1505. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2011.11.014. Google Scholar
[47]	W. Okrasiński and Ł. Płociniczak, Bessel function model of corneal topography, Appl. Math. Comput., 223 (2013), 436-443. doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2013.07.097. Google Scholar
[48]	W. Okrasiński and Ł. Płociniczak, Regularization of an ill-posed problem in corneal topography, Inverse Probl. Sci. Eng., 21 (2013), 1090-1097. doi: 10.1080/17415977.2012.753443. Google Scholar
[49]	H. Pan and R. Xing, Time maps and exact multiplicity results for one-dimensional prescribed mean curvature equations. Ⅱ, Nonlinear Anal., 74 (2011), 3751-3768. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2011.03.020. Google Scholar
[50]	Ł. Płociniczak, G. W. Griffiths and W. E. Schiesser, ODE/PDE analysis of corneal curvature, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 53 (2014), 30-41. Google Scholar
[51]	Ł. Płociniczak and W. Okrasiński, Nonlinear parameter identification in a corneal geometry model, Inverse Probl. Sci. Eng., 23 (2015), 443-456. doi: 10.1080/17415977.2014.922074. Google Scholar
[52]	Ł. Płociniczak, W. Okrasiński, J. J. Nieto and O. Domínguez, On a nonlinear boundary value problem modeling corneal shape, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 414 (2014), 461-471. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.01.010. Google Scholar
[53]	P. H. Rabinowitz, A global theorem for nonlinear eigenvalue problems and applications, in Contributions to nonlinear functional analysis (eds. E. H. Zarantonello), Academic Press, (1971), 11-36 Google Scholar
[54]	J. Serrin, The problem of Dirichlet for quasilinear elliptic differential equations with many independent variables, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 264 (1969), 413-496. doi: 10.1098/rsta.1969.0033. Google Scholar
[55]	R. Temam, Solutions généralisées de certaines équations du type hypersurfaces minima, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 44 (1971/72), 121-156. doi: 10.1007/BF00281813. Google Scholar

Figure 1. Graph of a generalized solution on an arbitrary domain.

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Figure 2. Graph of a singular solution on a thick spherical shell

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Figure 3. Classical solutions emanating from the trivial line: $\|\nabla u (a, b)\|_\infty$ is plotted, in applicates, versus $a$, in abscissas, and $b$, in ordinates

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Figure 4. Profile of the upper solution

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Figure 5. Profile of the lower solution

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