Dimension reduction for functionals on solenoidal vector fields
Stefan Krömer (2012)
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
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We study integral functionals constrained to divergence-free vector fields in on a thin domain, under standard -growth and coercivity assumptions, 1 ∞. We prove that as the thickness of the domain goes to zero, the Gamma-limit with respect to weak convergence in is always given by the associated functional with convexified energy density wherever it is finite. Remarkably, this happens despite the fact that relaxation of nonconvex functionals subject...