Optimal cutting of a bounded doamin into peaces of equal volume
We study in this work the problem of dividing a bounded region of the plane/space into pieces of equal area/volume
such as to minimise the length/surface of the boundary of the partition. This work follows a numerical study of
Kelvin's conjecture which
has been illustrated on the previous link.
We present below some optimal cuttings obtained by
a similar approach based on Γ-convergence which makes it possible to
avoid many local minima. As a post treatment, we used the very efficient software
Evolver (developped by
Kennet A. Brakke) to obtain a finer description
of optimal cuttings.
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Optimal cuttings of polytopes obtained by gamma Γ-convergence
As test cases we give also some illustrations related to optimal partitions of the disc and of a triangle.
As expected, our numerical solutions are made of local patches satisfying the 120 degrees angular conditions. Moreover some symmetries
of the cutted set are preserved for small numbers of cells.
Tiling of a disk with 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 24, 32 cells
Tiling of a triangle with 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 24, 32 cells