On the quenching of a nonlocal parabolic problem arising in electrostatic MEMS control

Andrew Alfred Lacey; Nikos Kavallaris; Christos Nikolopoulos

doi:10.1016/j.na.2016.02.001

On the quenching of a nonlocal parabolic problem arising in electrostatic MEMS control

Andrew Alfred Lacey, Nikos Kavallaris, Christos Nikolopoulos

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Abstract

We consider a nonlocal parabolic model for a micro–electro-mechanical system. Specifically, for a radially symmetric problem with monotonic initial data, it is shown that the solution quenches, so that touchdown occurs in the device, in a situation where there is no steady state. It is also shown that quenching occurs at a single point and a bound on the approach to touchdown is obtained. Numerical simulations illustrating the results are given.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	189–206
Number of pages	18
Journal	Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications
Volume	138
Early online date	28 Feb 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2016.02.001
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016

Keywords

Electrostatic MEMS
Touchdown
Quenching

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Andrew Alfred Lacey
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