Abstract:
We study the optimal elliptic regularity (within the scale of Sobolev spaces) of anisotropic div–grad operators in three dimensions at a multi-material vertex on the Neumann part of the boundary of a 3D polyhedral domain. The gradient of any solution of the corresponding elliptic partial differential equation (in a neighborhood of the vertex) is $p$-integrable with $p>3$.
Keywords:elliptic div–grad operator, piecewise linear 3D flattening, anisotropic ellipticity in three dimensions, transmission at
material interfaces, mixed Dirichlet–Neumann boundary conditions, optimal Sobolev regularity.