Billiards and Two-Dimensional Problems of Optimal Resistance |
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Authors: | Alexander Plakhov |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,Aberystwyth University,Aberystwyth,UK |
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Abstract: | A body moves in a medium composed of noninteracting point particles; the interaction of the particles with the body is completely
elastic. The problem is: find the body’s shape that minimizes or maximizes resistance of the medium to its motion. This is
the general setting of the optimal resistance problem going back to Newton. Here, we restrict ourselves to the two-dimensional
problems for rotating (generally non-convex) bodies. The main results of the paper are the following. First, to any compact
connected set with piecewise smooth boundary
B ì \mathbbR2{B \subset \mathbb{R}^2} we assign a measure ν
B
on ∂(conv B)× − π/2, π/2] generated by the billiard in
\mathbbR2 \B{\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus B} and characterize the set of measures {ν
B
}. Second, using this characterization, we solve various problems of minimal and maximal resistance of rotating bodies by
reducing them to special Monge–Kantorovich problems. |
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