Special Session 50: Nonlinear elliptic PDEs: analysis and computations

Gradient estimates for the insulated conductivity problem

Zhuolun Yang
Brown University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Hongjie Dong, Hanye Zhu
Abstract:
We consider two insulators embedded in a homogeneous medium where the current-electric field relation is the power law. The electric field (represented by the gradient of solutions) may blow up as $\varepsilon$, the distance between two insulators, approaches 0. In a recent joint work with Hongjie Dong and Hanye Zhu, we establish some gradient estimates in terms of $\varepsilon$.