Article
Keywords:
curvature driven motion; crystalline curvature; spiral growth
Summary:
We consider a motion of spiral-shaped piecewise linear curves governed by a crystalline curvature flow with a driving force and a tip motion which is a simple model of a step motion of a crystal surface. We extend our previous result on global existence of a spiral-shaped solution to a linear crystalline motion for a power type nonlinear crystalline motion with a given rotating tip motion. We show that self-intersection of the solution curves never occurs and also show that facet extinction never occurs. Finally, we show that spiral-shaped solutions exist globally in time.
References:
[1] Gurtin, M. E.:
Thermomechanics of Evolving Phase Boundaries in the Plane. Oxford Mathematical Monographs Clarendon Press, Oxford (1993).
MR 1402243 |
Zbl 0787.73004