Summary
A large class of problems arise in the material sciences involving free interfaces. To establish the existence and regularity (including the regularity of free interfaces) of solutions has been an important and interesting issue. Here we were able to do so in a model case accounted in optimal designs.
The method developed in this paper is rather general and may be useful for many other related problems.
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